Word: lobe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reichstag building when small, bespectacled, aging Socialist Paul Lobe tried to call the Reichstag Committee for Protection of Civil Rights to order as its chairman he was shoved out of the chair by six-foot Nazi Lawyer Hans Frank who shouted: "You Marxist liar! You're unfit to preside. I declare myself chairman!" As Socialist, Communist and Centrist committeemen stalked out, one of them lit a cigar, had it wrenched from his teeth by a Nazi who cried: "Show respect to the Chairman...
...Nazi camp indicated that Leader Hitler tried to persuade the President to accept him as Chancellor chiefly by arguing that the Fascist party is now Germany's "sole bulwark against proletarianism." This argument, not mere Hitler claptrap, had strong elements of fact. Earlier in the week Dr. Paul Lobe, long considered a most moderate Socialist, Speaker of the Reichstag, with one short interlude, for twelve years (1920-32), made a pivotal speech. Seconded by other Socialist leaders, he called on the Socialist Party (Germany's second largest) to unite with the Communist Party (third largest) in a "solid proletarian front...
...twelve years, from 1920 until last week, the Reichstag's Speaker has always been Socialist Paul Lobe (except for a few months in 1924). Thus the Fascists visibly replaced the socialists as Germany's dominant party...
...Roberts bases her arguments on 60 remarkable similarities between Polynesian and Amerind customs. Both groups make flutes of human bones, blow them through their noses, have conches for trumpets, gourds for whistles. Other similar customs include drinking from a human skull (the Vikings did likewise), spreading the ear lobe, killing the wife or husband upon the spouse's death, using feathers for money, deforming skulls, shaving heads in ridges, burying a live human being under a house's foundation...
...dentist's fingers, disappeared. The dentist surmised that it fell in some fold of his or Virgil Bailey's clothes, hunted no further. But Virgil Bailey had inhaled the burr. Lately deep-breathing Mr. Bailey experienced chest pains. X-rays showed the burr in the lower lobe of his lung. University of Michigan surgeons cut out the piece of lung which contained the dental burr, left Farmer Bailey comfortable and hale...