Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pace was set by the dull thudding "Death March" from Gö;tterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods*), interrupted by low, whining air planes from which whipped taut black streamers. One automobile was in the procession, that of Widow Stresemann. Led by grizzled President von Hindenburg, who left the sad line at the Foreign Office, other mourners stalked solemnly afoot to the graveyard...
...erect at my own expense a life-sized marble statue of the undersigned in the centre of the Calcutta Central Market. It is my intention to engage a leading British or English sculptor to depict me seated among my vegetables and holding a prize cabbage in one hand (left) and a giant carrot in the other (right). "Your obedient servant, Roy Mukerji Das." The startled Markets Committee, unable to think of a valid objection, approved, but referred the entire matter to the Calcutta Municipal authorities...
...Chicago many gangsters, known to be heavy speculators, received margin calls, left brokers' offices muttering threats. Dynamite was thrown into the home of one Charles H. McCarthy, manager of a brokerage Credit department. Stench bombs were tossed into the offices of Hornblower & Weeks, E. A. Pierce & Co., Logan & Bryan. "A new form of wolf has invaded La Salle Street," said the deputy police commissioner, ". . . The racketeer who responds with a bomb when he is called for more margin...
Elected. Robert Winship Woodruff, president of Coca-Cola Co.; to the presidency of White Motor Co., left vacant by the death of his friend, Walter C. Vhite (TIME...
...proves his love by taking her some of Germany's scarce meat from his mother's cupboard. Anna loves him in return, promises to reveal the mystery. But after an air raid a report is sent: "Direct hit. We've covered up all that's left...