Word: going
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Efficient social workers among the evacuated moppets meanwhile hastily scrambled into rehearsal thousands of Christmas plays. Their strategy: "Once a child gets a part in a play he will refuse to go home for Christmas." From Canada arrived seven tons of Christmas presents for the British evacues. Up in Scotland the heir presumptive to the throne, Princess Elizabeth, received a dollar bill from "an American child named Elizabeth" who wanted to help evacues, promptly sent it along by post. Her Royal Highness and Little Sister Princess Margaret Rose Christmas-shopped eagerly in "a sixpenny store somewhere in Scotland...
Many Dutch villages have their St. Nicholases and Black Peters, generally two popular local characters who know all the children. By prearrangement with parents, they leave toys for good children or threaten to leave a birch switch for bad as they go from house to house. Especially naughty moppets are supposed to be terrified into good behavior when grimacing Black Peter threatens: "Unless you mend your ways, I'll carry you off in my bag to Spain!" According to one legend, Blackamoor Peter came from one of the ancient lands of the Moors...
...Colonies and later Paymaster General in the British Labor Governments of 1924 and 1929. "The policy of a fight to the finish is wrong," cried Lord Arnold, arguing that, if Britain and France continue fighting Germany until the Nazis are overthrown by revolution, the German people will then go Communist and join the Russians in spreading Communism over the whole of Eastern Europe...
...other probably decided the battle. It pocked Spee's control tower fair and square. Lights went out. Telephones went dead. The central fire control went out of whack. Some of Spee's best plotters, gunnery officers, observers lay dead or wounded. From then on, orders had to go from less skilled men in secondary control stations. Speaking tubes, portable lights, messages by hand had to be resorted...
...boats were swarming with men. Our artillery had been held in reserve. It had not fired and the Russians did not know where it was. We opened up on them when they got to the middle of the river. They had gone 100 yards and had 100 more to go. All their boats were blown to pieces. The river was full of dead and wounded and drowning men. The drowning ones screamed. Their heavy overcoats and equipment made it impossible for them to swim. We machine-gunned the masses of them and picked them off with rifles. Nearly every...