Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some Nazi Storm Troopers loitering in the station Miss Sittell was moved to say, "Those are awful uniforms you're wearing." The Storm Troopers summoned the lone policeman of Waldmohr, a village three miles distant. He charged Stenographer Sittell with "insulting the Realmleader," clapped her into the village jail. When correspondents arrived they found the village in a panic. Nobody would say anything except the policeman. "Now don't go writing any atrocity stories," he begged. "Fräulein Sittell has plenty of food and all possible conveniences. Her dancing around merrily in her cell is the best...
Consolidated also prints cigar box portraits. In its files are the fat Teutonic nudes of yesteryear, who, thinly veiled in gauze, lie languorously across a wolf's skin (Wolff's Choice), or step daintily into a mountain brook (The Lone Queen), or sedately duel with rapiers in a grove (El Duelo). Today Consolidated makes its money from more prosaic designs for cigars like La Palina. La Palina was originated by Sam Paley, father of President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System. The inside of every La Palina box is adorned with a picture of Mrs. Sam Paley...
...this baby of Harvard sports, the Crimson has won 26 of its 31 meets and B. U. according to all predictions is bound to be victim No.27. Of the five defeats, four went to the credit of Yale, which annually reached the ultimate in piscatorial perfection. The lone legitimate trouncing was at the hands of West Point...
...uniforms on the bridge flapping against a grey sky in what seems to be a mingled whine of wind and speeding turbines; the commander getting the enemy's range again & again in his finder, announcing it in a flat singsong; one gun turret after another reporting "Ready"; a lone survivor in one gun turret groping to the telephone for instructions; sailors, protected by masks and helmets, staggering about in fume-filled turrets, loading the guns (see cut, p. 44). The battle is bitter and bloody. When it is over and victory has been won, the commander retires...
Grover was responsible for Harvard's lone goal Friday when he led a swarm of Harvard forwards in charging the Eli guardian, driving him back into the cage before he could clear the ball. Johnny England, Crimson goalie, managed to ward off Bulldog attackers with great difficulty. The summary: HARVARD YALE England, g. g., Blake Stent, Holcombe, l.f.b. r.f.b., Ward, Orth Robinson, r.f.b. l.f.b., Murray (Capt.), Belin Vincent, Russell, l.h.b. r.h.b., Upton, Bronson Dorman, c.h.b. c.h.b., Badman, Smith Roosevelt, Seeman, r.h.b. l.h.b., Brill, Larkin Wood, l.o.f. r.o.f., Coerr, Jennings Stork, (Capt.). Kelley, l.i.f. r.i.f. Pond Grover, c.f. c.f., Badger Clos...