Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ready. Loyalties were split between the Army and the Nazis, and there was sharp disagreement between those who were willing to back Hitler in a bluff and those who counseled delay. Brauchitsch kept mum, but when the purge came and Blomberg and Fritsch lost their jobs,* his good friend Reichenau recommended him to Hitler as the man to lead the Army. In February 1938, he took over its command, with the rank of Colonel General, and became a member of the Secret Cabinet Council created to advise Hitler on foreign policy...
...almost the same words-and marched into the Sudetenland at the head of the German troops. He occupied Bohemia and Moravia last spring, but still the Army was not ready. Last month, as motorized divisions began concentrating in Slovakia, in Silesia and East Prussia, Walther von Brauchitsch said good-by to his pretty wife and flew across the corridor to take personal command of the awaited Polish campaign in his old stamping ground, East Prussia. This time he was ready and the campaign hung...
When it was over they carried Lou to a hospital with a good start on his first cauliflower ear. Tony went back to his New Jersey barroom, with his puffy eyes on Detroit and a great bully-boy future. Said he: "I'll knock out dat bum Louis in two rounds...
...months ago the pinwheel brain of U. S. industry's most whimsical and unpredictable inventor threw out another spark. Convinced that what the U. S. needs and wants is a good, low-cost, small plane, mop-haired, 59-year-old William Bushnell Stout decided to re-enter aviation. Already mocked-up last week in his faded yellow Stout Engineering Laboratories in Dearborn, Mich, was a snug two-seater slated for mass production at about $3,000. (Specifications: four cylinder, 75-h.p. motor, 450-mile cruising range, tricycle landing gear, controls so limited that the pilot will not be able...
...interest in people, their customs and living conditions. In no slumming or night-out spirit did he shepherd his fellows to Harlem. He says of U. S. folk music: "It's the best thing we have. It's as American as chewing gum and Mark Twain, good and tawdry and proud...