Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When that line no longer holds, the next retreat is to Amsterdam, leaving a flooded area from Ijssel Lake to the Waal and Maas Rivers to protect the western heart of the country including Utrecht and Rotterdam. Stranded in the middle of this flood would be the ex-Kaiser's home at Doom. Another secondary defense line would back up the main water line, running southwest from Utrecht to Breda, near the Belgian border...
...pictures the poilu answering the call of duty just as Boyer placed his marital vows before Irene Dunne (in "When Tomorrow Comes"). They will soon become convinced that a place in the trenches is almost as glorious as a night of Boyer and Dunne facing the rising flood in a Long Island organ loft. But subtic and dangerous as his message may be, Boyer will be severely handicapped. Subtic and dangerous is the message that will be spread around the women's clubs of America. Before the French have won their first battle, Boyer will have organized a powerful lobby...
Last week the heroine of this legend was once more thinking of the German Army and The Netherlands' floodgates. Nowadays you can stop an army by flooding just over its hub caps, and Lieut. General Baron J. G. G. van Voorst tot Voorst, Commander in the Field of the Dutch Army, had already splashed around on his horse through some flood-test areas (see cut). Lieut. General and Queen were ready to flood some more. Though it had rained heavily off & on for three weeks, The Netherlands opened additional dikes to perform what was described as preliminary "saturation...
...into a 20-square-mile area north of Sierck in the hope of landing one on Nazi field headquarters, believed to be somewhere near Castle Thorn. The French withdrawal from the Warndt Forest was effected four days before the Germans learned of it and was performed chiefly to escape flood waters...
...before the Government's Committee for Reciprocity Information at Washington, Arthur Besse made an earnest plea: 1) terminate all Mr. Hull's reciprocal trade agreements (which would get rid of reduced tariffs on wool goods) for the duration of the war; 2) consider upping tariffs to prevent flooding of the U. S. market by foreign producers. Said he: "When the war is over we will be powerless to prevent a flood of foreign fabrics...