Word: hering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The curtain in a Broadway playhouse went up, several years ago, on an Alaskan valley and a colony of bankrupt, wrangling, hopeful, bewildered, bitter Midwesterners transplanted there by the U. S. Government. The play was called 200 Were Chosen. Act I-"This is the Matanuska Valley-best little "valley in...
"Summers are all right . . . but winters-thirty-five below! Drifts twenty feet deep! A man can freeze to death up here as easy as holding out his hand. . . ." Act III-"People were up all night. You could hear 'em coughing. . . ."
Plan or Necessity? All this was in line with Führer Hitler's policy of a "new order of ethnographic relations" in Eastern Europe in collaboration with Russia, as announced in his recent Reichstag speech. It was also consistent with mutual Soviet-German declarations that Hitlerism is for...
A songwriter cannot make as much money out of a war as a munitions manufacturer. But if he hits the jackpot, he can do pretty well. (Songwriter George M. Cohan's Over There sold 2,000,000 copies during World War I.) Soldiers are choosy about their songs. By...
Thus, writes Anonymous, the statement that the moon in Paris "sheds its glorious light here as in the States" is supposed to mean "An advance is planned for the morrow." Other Anonymous decodings: