Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow to disappear is usually to have been picked up by Stalin's secret police who are uncommunicative about their prisoners. Good Soviet sources told correspondents that Herr Streck was in jail, but why they would not tell, and his jailing was not officially confirmed. In vain the German Embassy demanded that Herr Streck be produced, and the U. S. Embassy was able to hold its wedding only when another Soviet-German pastor, Herr Michel, whose Lutheran church is in Leningrad, rushed 500 miles to Moscow where genial U. S. Charge d'Affaires Loy W. Henderson gave...
...regulation are difficult to determine. The "scandals" of last year were the outcome of large parties, not small gatherings. Further, the "two women" aspect of the rule casts a shadow over the reputation of the unchaperoned lady in a manner decidedly reminiscent of a spirit which was supposed to disappear with the turn of the century. Next, perhaps, the College will show marked approval of ladies who discreetly veil their faces and wear low-heeled shoes...
...were captured. Blood refused to confess to anyone but King Charles II. Charles not only pardoned Blood but gave him back his estates which had been confiscated. Some historians think that Charles, who could always use a little ready cash, would have been pleased to see the Crown Jewels "disappear," provided that they should emerge later in a more useful form...
...Times" system will be somewhat complicated by the well-known moving electric sign which runs across the face of their building, and disappears, never to be seen again, somewhere in the general direction of 42nd Street. For slower readers this proves an insurmountable handicap, and men who have missed more than half the dispatch have also been known to disappear in the general direction of 42nd Street...
...establish a foreign way of life in its place. . . . They have the pattern of their planned economy before them. . . . Our homes, our communities, our jobs and our businesses are to be directed from Washington. The profit motive is to be eliminated. Business as we know it is to disappear...