Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bucharest society, Rumanian politics are murderously tough. The assassination of King Carol II, for instance, was recently all set to take place at a swank turf classic, according to Bucharest police. Nabbed by detectives in time's nick, the nonchalant plotters were said to have been caught preparing hand grenades, boldly confessing, "We were going to toss them into the Royal Box while everyone was watching the big race of the day." Significantly, Lloyd's of London not long ago refused to write insurance on the life of strong and healthy Rumanian Premier Armand ("Little Hercules") Calinescu. Last...
...Partner Hitler had taken on another partner, Joseph Stalin; with him had carved Poland in two and threatened all the Balkans, where Italy has "vital interests." It was against every historical precedent for Italy to let Germany and Russia get away with the Balkans, but, on the other hand, if Germany knocked out Britain and France, Italy could clean up in the Mediterranean. Foxy Benito Mussolini took counsel with himself and at week's end delivered a speech that was a masterpiece of straddling, far removed from the blood-&-thunderousness of his speeches of the last four years...
Swapped Siege. Before the Military Division line was drawn, the German Army held advance positions in Poland many miles beyond it and was besieging LwÓw. This siege they proceeded to hand over to the Russians, since they were now to get LwÓw. German officers ordered their troops out of entrenched positions surrounding the city, and into the same trenches grimly went Red Army soldiers, while the business of shelling LwÓw was taken over by Soviet artillery. In the week's only show of cross-purposes between Berlin and Moscow, Nazi newsorgans claimed that...
...other's funeral oration. Showman Jessel has spoken 50 eulogies in the last 15 years. Most memorable one, over the body of Broadway Comedian Jack Osterman last June: "Mr. God, they say you've got a great big heart, so give the boy a great big hand...
Scripts in hand, the cast started off patriotically, keeping Britain's chin up with such songs as We Haven't Got the Jitters and An Air Raid Shelter for Two. But soon they were back at digging Chamberlain in the ribs and blasting England's slowpoke policy on the Western Front. Said a "communiqué": "It is officially stated that British troops have arrived in France and have agreed to fight on the same side as the French. A formula is being prepared." Began a song...