Word: gr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rushed back to Holinge pursued by debts and scandals. Talented, bitter, hysterical, she stayed in her room, tormented herself and the family, thought of suicide. The Snyders did not own Holinge, which complicated Bengt's problem. Its owner was a distant relative, an eccentric named Charles-Henri de Grévy, who had fled Sweden 20 years before as a result of shady stock manipulation. So the first shock to ambitious Bengt's resolution came when he learned that his mother had been unlawfully selling old de Grévy's possessions, that his other heirs might...
...disciplined, to fix his eyes on the day the fascists would take power and all decay and misery would be swept out of Sweden. As he steeled himself for that Herculean task, life at Holinge became such torrential confusion his theories could not explain it. His venomous aunt, de Grévy's sister, appeared. She suspected Bengt's mother of looting the estate. Bengt had to raise money at once. But his only wealthy friend was half-Jewish and Bengt, compromising his convictions in his dire need, found himself trapped in another labyrinth of intrigue...
...dozen individual dramas reached their climaxes word came to Holinge that the old owner, de Grévy, was returning to claim his own. And as a last turn of the screw Bengt learned that he was de Grévy's son. The wastrels, thieves, slanderers huddled together on the old farm on a stormy Easter to await the old man's vengeance, found his homecoming different from anything they could have anticipated...
White-faced and shaking, Adolf Hitler last week stood beside an open grave in Gräfelfing cemetery near Munich. Massed behind him were most of Germany's Nazi bigwigs. The Realmleader had come to bury his chauffeur, Julius Schreck, 32, dead of inflammation of the brain. The service was brief, manly, preacherless. A Nazi philosopher orated on the theme, "Let the furies of hell battle against me; I will ride through death and the devil." Instead of a psalm, the mourners sang Though All Should Prove Unfaithful, anthem of Nazidom's elite Schutzstaffel (Black Shirts), whose chief...
...Congo a glowering male gorilla beats his breast, while the female leans placidly against a tree, watching her baby eat wild celery. At a waterhole a mother giraffe with widespread forelegs is bending down to drink. Beside her are the male, keeping watch, and the calf. Nearby a young Grévy's zebra is suckling its mother. In the background baboons are scrambling over a steep cliff. On the plains of Tanganyika a group of mottled, sinister-looking wild dogs are intently watching a herd of zebra, ready to give chase and cut down a straggler. There...