Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conversations with French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, youthful, good-looking Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Reich Foreign Minister, pointed out Germany's deadly fear of Communism and her desire to see a stable government in Spain-i.e., to see Generalissimo Francisco Franco win the Spanish War. M. Bonnet got a quibbling answer when he asked Herr Ribbentrop point-blank whether Germany supported Italian claims to Tunisia (see below...
Mindful of German dislike of outside interference, they kept mum about their plans. At least two newspapers, the New York Times and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, knew what the three Friends were about, and kept mum too. But the Philadelphia Record got wind of the story, telephoned numerous Philadelphia Quakers, finally got hold of Quaker Jones on the Queen Mary. Despite his pleas, the Record splashed the story on its front page last week...
...situation is not new, but each time it happens it is unforgettable to passengers. Sometimes they sit tight. Sometimes they get hysterical. The Frobisher's passengers provided a gay variation. Yankee John Anthony Celler, a tourist from New Haven, Conn., stood up. "Anybody got a flask or something?" he coolly inquired. "I'd like to celebrate this occasion." The equerry looked a bit startled, the businessmen surveyed him askance. But Mlle Anne Chagno of Paris came characteristically into the action. She broke out two bottles of champagne. The businessmen quickly found some tumblers. Yankee Celler popped the first...
Meanwhile the ship's crew had got at the stuck landing gear after a half hour's work and hand-cranked it down into landing position. In the gathering night, the Frobisher sat neatly and easily down on Croydon field...
...described an interview at Doom during "that tense last week of September." Author "Burckhardt" pictured the once All-Highest pacing up and down and throwing off such amazing indiscretions as: "There's a man alone, without family, without children, without God. Why should he be human? . . . He has got rid of, or even killed . . . Papen, Schleicher, Neurath-and even Blomberg. He has nothing left but a bunch of shirted gangsters...