Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English editions of Moby Dick alone), and a consuming curiosity about Melville's scantily documented life. Biographers' main source material has been Melville's "autobiographical" novels. From these comes the portrait of the brooding, misanthropic philosopher and mystic, who went to sea in flight from suicide, won brief success with his South Seas romances (Typee, Omoo, et a/.) and Moby Dick, died a forgotten man after 20 bitter last years as a New York customs clerk...
Before the afternoon's voting, Cardinal Pacelli calmly paced a corridor, reading his breviary. Then, after conversing with a colleague, he stumbled, fell headlong down a short flight of steps, arose bruised and shaken. Shortly thereafter followed a third vote, and the lengthy, ceremonial reading of the ballots. When Cardinal Pacelli, seated under his baldachin (canopy), heard his name pronounced for the 42nd successive time, he suddenly hid his face in his hands. The reading continued. The Secretary of State received 61 votes...
...prove himself the opposite, also, in business management. He withdrew the proposed debenture issues, got enough bank credit to stave off the crisis, told Hearst he would have to live on whatever allowance could be spared from, his creditors. He gathered around him a staff of top-flight Hearst executives headed by the Chief's old favorite, Thomas J. White, and consisting of Harry M. Bitner, general manager of newspapers; Richard E. Berlin, publisher of magazines; Joseph V. Connolly, head of features, wire service and radio; Martin F. Huberth, real-estate adviser; Frej E. Hagelberg, auditor...
...Berlin method: to require each day the names of 100 Berlin Jews who will leave Germany within the next fortnight. When the 100 have paid their taxes, their share in the $400,000,000 vom Rath fine, the capital flight tax, contributed to the fund for the support of aged Jews and sold their jewelry to the State at the State's own price, they will be given passports marked with a large "J" (for Jew), told to get their visas. For those who don't get out on time, "dire penalties" will be provided...
...along with six swains, they render Tell Me, Pretty Maiden quite fetchingly; then for the rest of the show they gallivant with various admirers whose attentions go considerably beyond candy, books and flowers. One Pretty Maiden goes in for blackmail; another enjoys watching her aged suitor tumble down a flight of steps; a third is kept by a pal of the Mayor's; a fourth gets a venereal disease from her lover and shoots...