Word: inge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediate answer to his other protests. Reports that 30 crack Soviet divisions had ar rived in Bessarabia to counter Hitler's Army, and that the region of Odessa was under martial law, sent Rumanians from the Moldavian borderland fleeing into the interior. Jews, attempting to flee maraud ing Iron Guardists, were for the first time turned back when they tried to enter Soviet territory...
...would still have a copper shortage of 300-350,000 tons a year, raised the question of the U. S. beginning to take Canadian copper too. Moreover, right up to Christmas during December's acute copper squeeze, the Japanese (and the Russians) were permitted to continue buy ing spot copper for January delivery, al though, by last week, only one big supplier was still promising copper to domestic consumers for delivery as early as March...
...weeded out the entries to the four finalists: two from Purdue University, "Loyal Alumnus III" and "College Maid"; the University of Alberta's "Robin Hood" and 18-year-old Evelyn Asay's fat little "Sargo." Judge Yule paced from one to another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel. Finally he waved the Purdue entries aside. Josh Biglands, sawedoff, red-faced herdsman of the University of Alberta, shortened his grip on "Robin Hood's" tether and nudged the Shorthorn steer's feet so that...
...Italians, a humorous people, got a wry pleasure out of tipping their hats. In a country where the proper salute is an upraised hand word passed quietly that hat-tipping was an expression of the yearn ing for peace. Many hats were tipped on the streets. Humor of another kind was furnished to a fashionable audience largely of women in Rome by Major Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of the futurist school of Italian poetry. After telling his audience that "the Italian is hated by the masculine world, but adored by the feminine world," and proposing the formation of a corporation...
...background. Its hero was "Riccardo, Count of Warwick, Governor of Boston" in the 17th Century. He tenoriously fell in love with the soprano wife of his "Creole" secretary. After everyone had consulted a blackface sorceress named Ulrica, the Creole joined a conspiracy headed by two ha-ha-ing bassos, also in blackface, named Samuel and Tom. At a masked ball, the Creole killed his boss...