Word: en
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began last autumn at a Hallowe'en party in Pompey Hollow's snug little one-room schoolhouse, after the party rowdies stole a halyard from the school flagpole. Trustee Armstrong hung the flag in an alcove near a small oil stove where the pupils warmed their lunches. Worried lest the big flag catch fire, Miss De Lee took it down, pinned up a small one. Mr. Armstrong, infuriated, tore down the small flag, ordered the big one up again. Next day there was no flag at all and the small one was in the coal bin. "Hang...
...pound class-Rugo (MIT) defeated Sidney Kibrick (H), by decision; 125-pound class--Murphy (MIT) defeated Waldo E. Stewart (H), by decision; 135-pound class--Luci]en (MIT) defeated Henry P. Sherlock, Jr. (H), by decision; 145-pound class--Dwight Ellis, Jr. (H) defeated Martin (MIT), by decision; 155-pound class--Arthur Oakes (H) defeated Wallace (MIT), by technical knockout, round 1; 165-pound class--Waldemar Z. Wysocki (H) defeated Holloway (MIT) by technical knockout, round 1; 175-pound class--Joseph F. Nee (H) won by default; Heavyweight class--E. Hamlin Turner, Jr. (H) defeated Fierman (MIT), by a technical...
...various stages of intoxication, exhaustion and disgust, sank further into their emotional states when they saw who their fellow-guests were. The happily married scientists were embarrassed, tried not to show it. The mousy banker, Flora's tame cat, who had been picked up by a golddigger en route, had no eyes for anyone but his hostess. The golddigger, seeing that her dishonorable designs on the banker were hopeless, became honorable, which disappointed the professional Southerner. The pseudo-explorer, falsely thought to be Flora's lover, tried to get taken on by the advertising man's rich...
...This sort of thing makes it difficult for the foreigner, but the English themselves can tell instantly what is meant by the lack of inflection in the voice and the complete absence of expression on the face." Writing of English millinery they call attention to "the tailored felt, worn en bash over the eyebrows or well back on the head, its slant depending on whether you prefer to have the rain pour down your back or your chest." Of food: "Toast: Is a cold, hard fact faced by the cook the instant she rises and then set aside...
...were groaning in pain. Above the dead Realmleader Hitler made his supreme gesture, the Nazi salute. Then, strong-nerved, he plunged into the work of collecting bits of mangled bodies and arranging them under sheets. This took an hour. The seven injured were taken away to hospitals, one dying en route. A fresh engine was hitched to the Realmleader's special. ''It was a miracle!" cried the Nazi engineer. "A miracle that the train of our beloved Fuhrer did not leave the rails. Gott schiitzt Deutschland! God protects Germany...