Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italian politics in the days of ruthless Lorenzo the Magnificent and astute Niccolo Machiavelli were scarcely more tortuous than German politics today. Last week a fog of intrigue hung thick over official Berlin as a swarm of airplane-riding Nazis (Fascists) flocked vulture-like to the Capital. Their meat was the sudden resignation of Germany's autocratic and aristocratic Cabinet, headed by Oberst-leutnant (Lieut.-Colonel) Franz von Papen, mosthated Chancellor in modern German history...
...Thirty-Second President emerged from the campaign fog as a vigorous well-intentioned gentleman of good birth and breeding who had large hopes for improving his country by ordinary political processes. If he lacked crusading convictions, he was at least free from his predecessor's stubborn pride of opinion. One week after his election he seemed destined to give the U. S. the kind of administration it thought it wanted rather than the kind he thought it ought to have. No section had a right to dictate to him. to demand favors. The South? He could have won easily without...
...Claude Dornier stood in front of his airplane factory on the shore of Lake Constance, Switzerland one day last week, beaming with pride as one of his flying boats glided out of a soupy fog to a landing. This was no ordinary flying-boat, nor an ordinary flight. It was the sturdy Greenland Wai (Greenland Whale) completing a round-the-world trip begun 14 weeks ago, with stolid Wolfgang von Gronau and three aides as master and crew...
Capt. von Gronau has expressed approval of the North Atlantic route for airmail service, but disapproval of the North Pacific route on which "the weather changes every 15 minutes and there is so much fog...
Devotees who have visited the warm musty sanctum on Baker Street, who have seen thin, ascetic fingers cure Quietly around an hypodermic who hart watched a spare figure draped unhand somely in tweed and mufflers despots in the swirl of a London fog, in short all who know Hoimes as Doyle conceived him, will turn from this latest atrocity with grim sentiments...