Word: lande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lark could be happier than John Edgar Hoover, chief policeman of the land, who has found in Attorney General Frank Murphy the perfect, implacable, incorruptible yet deferent boss. Mr. Murphy takes Mr. Hoover with him on major punitive expeditions, such as the one to Kansas City to "get" Boss Thomas J. Pendergast. Mr. Murphy encourages Mr. Hoover to step out vigorously on lines of his own, as any smart policeman likes...
...hand, soon lost its sheen. Henry and his devoted second wife (beauteous Elsie Marie Whelen of Philadelphia) moved again, this time to the idyllic seclusion of an 8th-Century fortress-monastery at La Napoule, on the shores of the Mediterranean. There they set about to create their Never-Never Land. Self-conscious Aristocrat Clews carefully restored the chateau and gardens, stocked the whole place with white birds and animals (to his white pigeons he had tiny flutes fastened, which whistled musically as they flew), worked when he felt like it at sculpture, writing, painting. La Napoule's villagers regarded...
...succeed Il Duce, Dino Grandi or his bearded "twin," Italo Balbo, leader of the famed mass flight to the Chicago Fair. Grandi was "exiled" as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in 1933 and Hero Balbo was made Governor of Libya, in which hot and barren land he sits to this day. Last week Ambassador Count Grandi was recalled from London to become Minister of Justice, and observers wondered whether he had not again been kicked upstairs...
...most publicized nights in the East African campaign. His instructors rated him as a very mediocre pilot but he started the war by dropping the first bombs over Aduwa. His plane was the first to be hit by an enemy bullet. He was the first Italian flier to land in Addis Ababa at the war's end. For all this Galeazzo was promoted to the rank of major and was awarded two silver medals. Il Duce began to be convinced he had the makings of a leader; the Count reciprocated by aping the postures, speech, manners of his father...
...offset motor gives greater traction to its left rear wheel which rolls on the unplowed land, not on the softer earth already plowed...