Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still undaunted, Columnist Winchell was on hand at the appointed hour. Another stranger appeared. "Tell Hoover to be at 28th Street on Fifth Avenue between 10:10 and 10:20," said he. Winchell went to a telephone and followed instructions. Then he got into his car and let Stranger No. 2 take the wheel. At 10:15 Stranger No. 2 pulled up at Madison Square and got out. "Just wait here," he said. Winchell waited. A moment later a third stranger arrived, opened the door and got in. He took off his dark glasses and threw them into the street...
Results. If Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin concluded the Pact for its immediate effect-to be so startling that the world would at once accede to dismemberment of Poland-the bitter laugh was on them. Poland behaved as if nothing had happened. Britain, France got madder if possible. Italy went into her oldtime wobbling act. Japan began slapping Germans in Tientsin. Catholic Spain was outraged...
Russia's papers and magazines have lately been so jampacked with accounts of shortages, mismanagement, blundering, that exiles reading it from afar wondered if violent anti-Communists had got control of the controlled press. As last week's news of the German-Russian Pact left the world gasping, urgency of the reports suddenly became understandable. As correspondents speculated on where, when & how Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler got together, the Russian picture of Russia's condition suggested that more than high politics egged Stalin on. Not theories, which could be changed, or political opponents, who could...
...good sport to salute friends with "Heil Stalin," and when some young blades rang the doorbell of the Soviet Embassy, shouted "Heil Moscow" and ran away, that was very funny too. In a midtown Bierstube, a band struck up the Communist Internationale and everybody stood up. Gossip even got around that that great German Communist, Ernst Thalmann, who once polled three times as many votes as the Führer himself, was to be released from a concentration camp. Along the Wilhelmstrasse, knowing officials bet 20 bottles of champagne to one there would...
...Thursday, when it got about that the British Parliament had been called in special session, that Great Britain and France were commencing to mobilize in earnest, the German people began to sober down. Now the streets were filled with marching men, not only youths but some of their fathers too, as far back as the Class of 1899. In Vienna, where war always seemed so far away, thousands of men in factories were called up, replaced by women...