Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention to those Coughlin claquers who are barking at you and threatening to destroy your circulation. I shall undertake personally to get you a dozen or more new subscribers on the strength of your courageous stand against demagogues of Coughlin's sanctimonious type. Others will do the same...
Last week about two dozen workers for Germany sailed from Manhattan aboard the liner St. Louis. A steward surveyed the group, explained to newsmen: "Rückwanderer, or going-back people." One was reticent, middle-aged Kurt Stache of Milwaukee, who declined to discuss Eugene Buerk. "He is not coming back-he cannot talk," explained a companion. An ornamental iron worker from Chicago paid all his own fare so that he would be free to return if Nazi Germany is not so rosy as letter-writing relatives paint...
...followers opened fire and before the Army forces could machine gun them into submission three policemen, a pedestrian and four rebels were killed, nearly a dozen wounded. Strong Man Benavides and his Ministers called off their holiday, rushed back to Lima in time to supervise the disposition of the bodies...
...Mild. When he is not traveling, Paderewski lives in his 26-room villa Riond Bosson at Morges, Switzerland. Once the property of Fouche, Napoleon's Minister of Police, Riond Bosson overlooks Lake Geneva towards towering Mont Blanc. Paderewski has at different times bought half-a-dozen farms and country estates, including a large walnut ranch in California. But Riond Bosson has for 40 years been the nearest thing to a permanent home that Paderewski has had. There, with his sister...
Antoinina Wilkonska, a woman secretary and her mother, and a dozen servants, he lives the mild life of a well-to-do country gentleman...