Word: kishineff
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...Hohenzollern King Carol's heaviest worries is the success of Germans in founding, financing and rapidly expanding a native Nazi party in Rumania. Last week the King's police swooped down on 20,000 Rumanian peasant Nazis at Kishineff looking for their paymaster. Several men seized at the Nazi rally proved to be Germans. Searched to the skin, one turned out to be a walking bundle of banknotes. When he was identified as Herr Friedrich Weber, correspondent in Rumania of Realmleader Hitler's personal newsorgan, Volkischer Beobachter ("People's Observer"), the King's police clapped...
...spend in preparation had been used up in getting a long-distance call over the telephone. What conviction has the ordinary excuse now for me? And what strange glimpses I have had of lives! The boy who lay for eighteen hours under the dead body of his mother in Kishineff, until the mob drew off; the girl who wrote of the two men who wished to marry her, pinning their photographs to the paper, and asked me which to choose--those are examples out of literally hundreds that linger in my conscious or subconscious memory. And on the other hand...
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