Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the moral stench against them grew insupportable. His Majesty's Government accepted the resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare last week, although he had done nothing except on their prior instructions and with their subsequent approval. In sheltering themselves by means of a scapegoat were His Majesty's Government cowards...
...civilian Premier, nervous Mr. Constantine Demerdjis, grew more alarmed than ever as he read in General Kondylis' newsorgan: "The new Government rests on a basis from which premiers have fallen and kings been overthrown!" Nonetheless George II set his big jawbone. Instead of convening Parliament and challenging it to boot him off the Throne, His Majesty dissolved Parliament without permitting it to meet last week, ordered for Jan. 26 an election. Elections in Greece usually return the government that runs them...
...London rumor grew that the King is personally for this solution, famed Editor James Louis Garvin predicted in London's Conservative Sunday Observer that British public opinion hostile to The Deal will eventually rearrange itself and that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin "in due time will emerge with a moral triumph never surpassed in the House of Commons...
Finally the Deputies of France grew tired of M. Besson. By a vote of 335 to 28, they booted him out of office as a psychopathic case. Fat Inspector "Bouboule" was assigned to capture him. While the vote was being counted Besson fled. To a police brigadier waiting to clap hands on him, Besson snarled, "Do not touch me, I have my Parliamentary immunity. The vote, my friend, has not yet been counted." Out the back door he slipped again, and "Bouboule" found himself ignominiously suspended from the police department for one month...
Rank & file of the performances grew more & more routine and the Metropolitan's name lost much of its luster. The future of opera in Manhattan was unpredictable when the last curtain was rung down on the 1934-35 season...