Word: damp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white & green are the flags of Italy and Hungary though the Hungarian flag is of a different stripe (horizontal). Firmly grasping thousands of both kinds of flags in their damp fists, Budapest school children lined the streets last week all the way from the railroad station across the Danube to the vast pile of Franz Josef's royal palace above the city. The kingless Kingdom of Hungary was entertaining the first royalty to visit it officially since the owl-eyed King of Siam went to Budapest shortly after the War. Little old Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, his strapping Queen...
Because there is only about an acre of arable Germany to feed each German; because the climate is cool and damp and the land overworked, Germany for years has had to import 20% of her foodstuffs, including 45% of her fats (meat, eggs, cream, etc.). Last year the Führer decided that Germany must be made "economically self-sufficient," must prepare herself for a possible long war. Launched by Hitler's No. 2 man. Minister-President General Hermann Goring, was Germany's vigorous Four-Year Economic Plan (TIME...
This year the Museum has been humming with activity. Up to a couple of months ago you could watch red-headed Lewis Rubenstein, '30, painting on the damp, freshly plastered walls of the entrance hall scenes from the "Neibelungenlied" and the old "Icelandic Edda". And stirring scenes they are. "Wars are waged, blood is shed, and evil grows greater . . . The giants have gathered to attack Asgard." Frey, the traitorous Loki, and Thor, with his mighty workman's hammer, battle on the bridge Bilfrost, which "is built of air and water, and is protected by red fire flaming on its edge...
...minute or two that passed before the main drama of the occasion was enacted by Franklin Roosevelt and Chief Justice Hughes. This act was a dramatization of the Constitutional issue which troubled the campaign of 1936 and still burns. Standing up and removing his skull cap from his damp hair, the Chief Justice boomed: "Do you, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, solemnly swear that you will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of your ability"-with every word his voice grew more emphatic-"preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
...damp snow (temperatures just above freezing): Ostbye "Medium...