Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris today is giving Their Britannic Majesties the greatest reception ever tendered a living person anywhere!" cabled last week Chicago Daily News Veteran Edgar Ansel Mowrer. The democracies, following the lead of Hitler's visit to Rome, were themselves putting on a whopping big show of friendship. At the last minute the $1,000,000 official decoration of Paris for the State visit was multiplied by householders, shopkeepers who hung out flags, bunting, streamers and pictures of Their Majesties. Good-natured French throngs surged on the sidewalks, twisting their tongues in preparation for singing God Save The King. They...
...within 50 miles of the Portuguese border. This week, as military observers had long expected, one knife thrust through thinly held Leftist lines did the trick. The balloon burst, leaving the Rightists in possession of several thousand prisoners, 5,000 head of cattle and the strategic copper, iron and lead-mining centre of Castuera...
...sized folks for contrast, midgets appear much like other people. Next time out, Producer Buell's half-pint stock company will have something to stack up against. They will act out the legend of the mighty lumber man, Paul Bunyan, with a burly upper case actor in the lead...
...WALL-Mary Roberts Rinehart-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Mrs. Rinehart with her usual smooth craftsmanship and deft handling of a large cast tells how the indiscretions of a beautiful divorcee lead to three murders in a New England summer colony. Rivals may turn out more striking stories, but the suspense and atmosphere of The Wall make it the safest bet of the month for readers who want mysteries of general rather than specialized interest...
...they are the largest advertisers in the social club world and that they have available for introduction to their members of both sexes persons who are "worth while," "cultured" and "wealthy." Said FTC: "They admit in their stipulation that they cannot always establish for their clients contacts which will lead to happiness and lasting contentment...