Word: lives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charged with nailing sabres. Immediately other pro-French demonstrations broke out all over Belgrade, the crowds hurling brickbats at the police. Outside the Parliament building a gendarme was overpowered, stabbed in the stomach with his own bayonet. Wild shooting followed, punctuated with cries of "Vive la France! Long live democracy! Down with Fascism! Down with Italy!" While ambulances were taking the wounded to hospitals, Premier Stoyadinovich banqueted the envoy of democratic France, toasted blandly "the Yugoslav-French pact of ten years standing we are happy to renew for five years more. Your Excellency will be able to convince yourself...
...professional football team, in one season, should have generated such a super-college spirit in its town, but the Redskins are a remarkable team. From 1932 through 1936 the champion Washington Redskins were the dismal Boston Redskins. In that time they lost for their owner, Washington Laundryman George ("Long Live Linen") Marshall approximately $85,000. At the start of the 1937 football season, Owner Marshall, fed up with perpetual deficits in Boston, moved his franchise and his team to Washington where he could give it his personal attention. His only major change in personnel was the addition of dark, drawling...
Syracuse, for example, has recently set up an entire national government, with 103 representatives, presidents, cabinet officers, civil service officers, and wards in the town of Syracuse where the students live...
...Thorndike concludes that the good town is a place where most citizens enjoy the creature comforts, take good care of their own families, live respectable, unpretentious bourgeois lives, that only 35% of a town's desirability as a place to live is accounted for by wealth and income; 55% depends on the character of the people and 10% on other factors...
...July by Max Annenberg, a $125,000-a-year circulation director of the nation's best-selling daily, the tabloid New York News. The blustering Max Annenberg charged that a Rascoe autobiography. Before I Forget, which called Annenberg "a burly barbarian, endeavoring with conspicuous success to live down his reputation as a roughneck," maliciously defamed "a forthright, honest and faithful citizen [Annenberg] . . . always reputed, esteemed and accepted by and among all his neighbors...