Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traveled up to the Yugoslav frontier to fetch his German fiancee, broad-faced, broad-smiling Princess Frederika Luise of Hanover, 20. The bridal train itself was six hours late on the run from the frontier to Athens-not, however, an undue delay for Greek trains -and there for nearly eight hours some 200,000 Greeks stood on the sidewalks, stamping their feet and blowing on their fingers, before they finally got their chance to cheer...
...With eight passengers and a copilot, Nick Mamer was flying east in one of Northwest's brand-new Lockheed 143, twin-motored monoplanes whose 225 m. p. h. cruising speed makes them the fastest commercial planes in the world. Weather was not too good and shortly after noon Pilot Mamer dropped down at Butte, Mont, for a scheduled landing, lingered until the skies cleared. Then he drummed away over the mountains toward Billings, Mont. His last report: "Cruising at 9,000 ft. with everything okay...
...they have so often done in the past-talk abstract principles while advocating legislation in the economic interest of their section or class. A few miles from the parental household in Connecticut the younger branch of the Beard historical menage-Daughter Miriam, her husband Dr. Vagts and their precocious eight-year-old son Detlev- live in even greater retirement in a new brick house that has an electric dishwashing machine, but also no radio, no telephone. When Miriam Beard and Alfred Vagts were married, Vagts, who had been a German officer during the War, was a professor in Berlin, where...
Last week Dorothea was belatedly punished for her sins when 376 pages of her private letters to Metternich were published for the edification of the general public that she despised. She wrote him almost every day for eight years, giving information about English and Russian politics, scandals and her own repeated triumphs, and acting in general as Metternich's spy. She was so powerful that it was said Austria had two ambassadors in London, the official one and Dorothea. Dorothea and Metternich so wangled state affairs that they were able to meet on three occasions, but when Metternich remarried...
...blunders. The most serious seems to me to be-talking sentiment. I find it much more natural for her to fall down on a perfectly smooth carpet." Witty as Dorothea was, by the time they have finished her private letters most readers will be able to understand why, after eight years of them, Metternich suddenly threw her over and married a young girl not half so aristocratic nor half so harsh...