Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there are only three King's Messengers: Major Custance, Lieut. Colonel Porter, and Acting Messenger Wilton. Week after week, they take a number of red morocco boxes filled with diplomatic documents to Paris, where they board the Orient Express to Istanbul and Cairo. On the out trip they drop off boxes at Lausanne (for Geneva), Milan (for Rome), Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade, Athens, pick up others at the same points on their way home. No King's Messenger is necessary for Washington since Britain's diplomatic documents are brought to Manhattan by the pursers of British liners, there...
...when zero hour came, W. N. U.'s amiable Vice President Edward C. Johnston astounded Manhattan financial editors by quietly handing out a brief announcement that there would be no fight. W. N. U. would continue to pay its 6% bondholders their 6%. All hands agreed to drop reorganization proceedings. On its part, the Fish management attributed this change of heart to improvement in rural business conditions. Everybody seemed pleased. Next day, W. N. U.'s bonds, with $8 back interest accruing, shot up 20 points on the New York Curb Exchange...
Jack Benny and Mary Livingston, noted radio and stage comedians now in Boston for a week's engagement at the Metropolitan Theatre, were said to have made arrangements to drop in at the dance, but at 11.45 o'clock there was no Jack Benny to be found...
Last week when Germany's von Hindenburg floated up from Friedrichshafen for its first crossing to South America, the German Press was overflowing with news of this hugest of all dirigibles. In the midst of the furor, the Press was abruptly ordered to drop all mention of Dr. Hugo Eckener. Reported reasons: No Nazi, the doughty, pouch-eyed old aeronaut had refused to make an election statement endorsing Adolf Hitler, had unsuccessfully opposed using the von Hindenburg in the election campaign, had successfully opposed naming it Hitler...
...handful of Gentiles will work with genuine zeal for the rescue of the German Jews. As long as repression, however widespread, is aimed chiefly at workers and avowed radicals, the middle class will inevitably minimize its importance or deny its existence. But when the stink bombs begin to drop in the academic trenches the troops tumble out and become aware that a war is actually on. And in this particular war, whether either of them likes it or not, President Conant and Angelo Herudon are enlisted in the same service--along with all the rest of us whose right...