Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl can get a free (and good) hairdo at the National School of Cosmeticians (33 West 46th Street) but she probably is starving herself to keep in stockings and clothes...
...insure the peace of Europe forever and ever, Amen. No celebrations marked the date. Instead, all eyes were on the man who had torn that document to shreds, Adolf Hitler. That day he was on a Bavarian mountain top directing a campaign to reclaim for the German Fatherland the Free City of Danzig, neutralized and placed in customs union with renascent Poland by the treaty-makers. As the Führers well-oiled propaganda machine went into high gear, as his high-powered Army stood by prepared, if need be, to enforce the Leader's will, Europe...
...massing troops on the Polish border, smuggling SS men and ammunition into Danzig, spreading tales of terror, creating incidents and sounding false alarms, the outline of the coup could be foreseen. Danzig would have an "internal uprising." The eight members of the Danzig Senate-all Nazis-would declare the Free City absorbed into the Reich. At that moment police and soldiers would evict the Polish customs guards on the area's borders and take over. If the Poles decided then to march into Danzig, they, and not the Nazis, would be placed in the position of being the aggressors...
...political and economic independence," said the 72-year-old former professor of electrochemistry who has been Poland's President for the last 13 years. "Through this narrow gate, through a small strip of seacoast, is done three-quarters of our business with foreign nations. This is our free unhindered way to all the other countries in the world and the more they are menaced the stronger is our determination to defend Pomorze and the seacoast...
Chief week-end worry of wily Foreign Minister Josef Beck, returning from his country estate after a brief holiday, was the recruiting of a Danzig Army and the building of fortifications in the Free City. One Nazi stratagem last week seemed to be to take over the city little by little, ousting first one Polish official and then another, eliminating this Polish function and then that, until finally there would be no more Polish officials in Danzig. At some unspecified point in the Nazi eliminations the Poles were prepared to intervene...