Word: homed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this year the King paid a visit to the Court of St. James's, later dropped in on Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden. He signed a trade treaty with Germany that looked like a complete national sellout, but the first thing he did when he got home was to shoot all the Nazi plotters he could find. During the summer he visited President Ismet Inönü of Turkey. When World War II started Rumania formally declared its neutrality, and none hoped more fervently than Carol II that Rumania would be able to keep...
...Germany's continuing to concentrate troops along her Dutch border. Dutch soldiers, standing to their arms about 500,000 strong, removed all road signs in frontier districts, to confuse an invader. Bridges and key roads remained mined. At the same time, to release them for work at home, the Government demobilized the Class of 1924. No one really expected a German push, especially if the Dutch canals and rivers do not freeze solid this winter (as they did last...
...will be younger and older than it used to be-age limits have been dropped three years to 18, pushed up two years to 27. What used to be a ten-month elementary course has been telescoped into 16 weeks. (Many of the men will get this part at home in Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain.) They know that now when they come out full-fledged, they will be given the best ships to fly that money can buy. Especially in fighters, Britain is satisfied that she is the Nazis' match, her Hawker Hurricanes being nearly as fast...
...Orchestra; a small, plump, snub-nosed young woman who booped mightily through the brass coils of a big French horn. When she had finished the horn part of Mozart's Quintet in E Flat Major, with dignity she dumped the saliva from her horn, rose and went home to practice for this week's concert. The young woman's name was Ellen Stone, and playing with such topnotchers as the Budapest Quartet bothered her no whit, for she is the best woman French horn player in the world...
...gait, shifting happily about from crayons to lithographs, wood carving to ceramics, water colors to oils. No prodigy, she had the varying interests of a normal, healthy child; through them all kept the Zorach household overrun with animals. Her long-suffering family did not even rebel when she brought home a baby skunk, though somehow it escaped during the night...