Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nordic States no man can foresee. But with their democratic friends embattled far down the North Sea, and their totalitarian neighbors creeping across and along the Baltic, tears and tennis, trees and testimonials may well be not enough to save them. Against one Adolf Hitler, perhaps not even a Gustavus Adolphus would suffice...
Knitting became the acceptable conversational topic at Mayfair dinner tables, even male ARPers knitting to pass the time. Female knitters are called Sister Susies after the popular World War I song: Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers, Such skill at sewing shirts our shy young sister Susie shows, Some soldiers send epistles, Say they'd sooner sleep in thistles, Than the saucy soft short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews...
...Knitting" was retired Vice Admiral Hubert Seeds ("The Dear") Monroe, 62, newly appointed chairman of the Royal Navy War Comforts Committee. For the wartime saucy soft short shirts of British sailors, posited the Admiralty in a broadside to knitters last week, it is necessary to employ two-ply and even three-ply yarn...
...Rydz (now also in Rumania) criticized for their professional handling of the Polish Army, but they were roundly condemned for leaving their country while their Army was still fighting. Exception was General Casimir Sosnokowski, who led a last-ditch offensive action against the eastbound Germans near Lwów even while Soviet troops approached from the other direction. Last week General Sosnokowski arrived safely in Paris, and his aide, a Colonel Dehnel, told newsmen the story of the General's escape...
...population (30,552) began trenching the talcum-powder beaches, the little green coves. Reserves of the Bermuda Volunteers were feverishly called up. Bermuda's familiar bicycles were mounted by furiously pedaling couriers in uniform. Letters both incoming and outgoing were rigidly censored (not yet done in Canada). Even women got busy on counterespionage. An innocent German hairdresser who has been on the island for 15 years was eyed with deep suspicion...