Word: knowed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next evening, two hours after the deadline, Winchell got another call. He was told to drive to a theatre in Yonkers. At the wheel of a borrowed car-because too many people know his-he set out. On the way another car pulled alongside. A man got out, holding a handkerchief to his face. "Go to the drugstore on the corner of 19th Street and Eighth Avenue about 9 p. m.," said the stranger, and disappeared...
...balloons except Franklin Roosevelt's, found that no honest-to-goodness Republican bandwagon exists. Polices were asked first: If you had your choice in 1940, would you choose Mr. Roosevelt or someone else? Answers: 34.9% would choose Mr. Roosevelt, 53.3% would not, 11.8% didn't know. Who else? was the next question. The polices said: Don't know, 63.8%; Dewey, 9.6% ; Garner, 8% ; Vandenberg, 6.1% and on down to a vanishing point with Taft, Hull, Hoover, McNutt, Landon...
...March, Stalin made a big speech before the Communist Party Congress, lashing out against the democracies. Stalin's Ambassador reportedly let Berlin know of Litvinoff's fall five days before it came, and, day after it came, the Hamburger Fremdenblatt significantly said: "European politics now have emerged once for all from the unfruitful era of unbounded ideological conflict. . . . Realists now have taken over the leadership from idealists like Litvinoff and Eden...
...capacity as Minister of National Defense with British War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, he summoned Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet from vacation in the country, closeted himself once more with his generals. To M. Bonnet he gave the job of checking with France's allies, letting them know that this time France meant business. To his generals he gave the word to man the Maginot Line...
...Germany-Italy were one country and if it should attack Poland-then any amateur war-gamer would know what Britain-France must do. Britain-France must destroy Italy. Thus they would deliver a shattering wound to Germany-Italy, become masters of the Mediterranean from end to end and able to bring help to Poland and to the entire Eastern Front...