Word: himly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The policeman tried to tackle Ferguson, but the mad man, wet and slippery, kicked him away, kept his grip on the midget until she was dead. Fox got three more policemen; Ferguson fought them with chairs, a table, his teeth. They had not subdued him when, suddenly, he stopped fighting...
Moaned an Etonian two days later in the Personal column of the London Times: Will the numerous Harrovians who, in at tempting to divest a very old Etonian of his trousers, deprived him of two treasured five shilling pieces and a gold safety pin please return one or all to...
Like many another Italian War hero, young Dino Grandi had turned to the post-War Fascist movement to satisfy an acquired taste for action. He rose fast and, as Chief of Staff for the Quadrumvirs, stage-managed the March on Rome and Mussolini's meeting with King Vittorio Emmanuele...
During the Italo-Ethiopian War and the crisis over sanctions, Ambassador Grandi nursed Anglo-Italian relations through their most difficult period by alternately pounding the table and making conciliatory gestures. For this accomplishment the King made him a Count in 1937. At the meetings of the Non-intervention Committee Britons...
Seven damp London winters have given Count Grandi rheumatism, and he has long wished to return to Italy. A recall so sudden that the British Government first learned of it from news dispatches came, however, as a surprise. Two months ago in a speech at the Embassy he violated diplomatic...