Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...information to a "foreign power." Japan and Germany are the only two powers conceivably in the market for Russian military secrets, and of these Nazi Germany is closest to Moscow. Anti-Soviet rumor factories in Warsaw, Riga and Berlin quickly spread stories of abortive Red Army mutinies in a dozen districts, bloody street riots, even the assassination of Nazi Ambassador Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg...
...much fun as she could stand. "It was not infrequent for me to pledge myself for luncheon engagements 20 days in succession and seven weeks in advance; to pour tea at several different receptions in the course of the same afternoon and 'look in on at least a dozen others, unless I were at home to hundreds of callers myself; to receive six dinner invitations for the same night; and to tumble into bed at four in the morning after having gone to a private musicale and a ball or two after dinner." Most amusing incident she can remember...
...three days while Pitcher Dean reiterated: "I'm not goin' to sign nothin'!" Baseball's noisiest dispute since Babe Ruth was fined $5,000 for insubordination in 1925, the Dean-Frick fight ended after three days in a ludicrously solemn compromise. Witnessed by two dozen newshawks, President Frick asked Pitcher Dean whether he had made the remarks attributed to him by the Belleville Advocate. As a reward for repudiating them, Pitcher Dean, though he would still "not sign nothin'," was reinstated...
...yeomen from the Maintenance Department will attack it this summer, spruce up the interior, put in some plumbing, and spray onto the walls that etherial something which makes a House different from any other dwelling. Then, in the fall, this little addition will welcome its small brood of a dozen or so, square its shoulders, and prepare itself for the mighty task of filling the gap until that distant day when a real solution materializes...
...cobwebbing of wine bottles. After visiting the "spider farm" on Lancaster Pike outside Philadelphia, Reporter Paine said that 4,000 spiders of the species Nephila plumipes (who spun the "finest webs") were busy working for M. Grantaire, that he shipped them to customers in "little paper boxes, so many dozen in each crate." that the Queen spider was named "Sara Bernhardt," that her consort, fearsome "Emile Zola," was a specimen of the famed "bird-hunting spiders of Surinam." When M. Grantaire tapped on one of her filaments, Reporter Paine's straight-faced account continued, "Sara" ran up his finger...