Word: erful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much-publicized debut of Orson Welles which has been boycotted by the Hearst papers ever since Louella Parsons noted a likeness between the careers of her boss and the protagonist. And the ex-boy genius has done it again, producing a picture the like of which has ne'er been seen before hereabouts...
Creditor. In Brownsville, Ore., grizzled Farmer Matud Odehnal, who used to be a stonemason in Moravia, declared: "Hitler still owes me 20?." Years ago, he said, a ne'er-do-well Adolf Hitler borrowed a krone from him in the Pohrlitz courthouse, never repaid...
Mustered out of the 15th Jim Europe picked up a band, played at Manhattan Opera House, went on tour billed as Jim Europe and His Hell Fighters Band. In Boston, near the end of the tour, he had an altercation with Herbert Wright, broth' er of his drummer. Wright pulled a knife, slashed Europe's jugular vein. Few hours later, in a hospital bed, Jim Europe said: "Sissle, carry on as I have outlined," and died...
...Stohrer had an even better idea, which came to him from Berlin. He called on Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer and offered the services of German Army units stationed in occupied France. Don Ramón accepted gratefully. German officers hurried to Santander by train and a motorized column rumbled across the bridge at Hendaye. With the column were 500 technicians, engineering and hospital equipment, enough field kitchens to feed 30,000 persons...
...last week, for the first time, Benito Mussolini took the trouble to meet the man he helped to power in Spain. At II Duce's invitation Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his Foreign Minister and brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, sped across southern France to the Italian Riviera town of Bordighera, where II Duce was waiting to shake hands. While an Italian armored train, its guns turned on the Mediterranean, chuffed nervously up & down the Riviera between San Remo and Grimaldi, II Duce, El Caudillo and the man Spaniards derisively call the Big Shot Brother...