Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paris for the first time began to feel that they might have overstepped the mark, suddenly saw the red shadow of Russia athwart the German map. Was there the wildest possibility that Germany might borrow from Russia? If German Communists seized the Reich would they ally themselves with Moscow? Might the Red Army soon be on the Rhine? Le Figaro recalled the German-Russian Treaty of Rapallo, and added: "A new consecration, and no doubt a strengthened one has occurred between Russia and Germany at the moment when with tears in its voice the Reich is imploring...
Fifty times as big as Denmark is Denmark's only colony, Greenland. (Iceland is an independent kingdom that merely happens to have the same King as Den-mark.) In recent warm summers parties of Norwegian hunters have made frequent trips to East Greenland, built little shack settlements there. The Danish-Norwegian problem first boiled over more than a month ago when a semi-official Norwegian body known as the Arctic Council suddenly announced that Denmark was about to send an expedition to explore East Greenland, sounded an alarm that the time had come for Norway to stake and beflag...
...time for a sketch?"Grand Hotel" by Gladys Glad's smart husband Mark Hellinger, a fairly disorderly sequence with Harry Richman as Baron Al Capone of Chicago, sputteringly Semitic Jack Pearl as Cecil B. Goldwarner of Hollywood, Milton LeRoy as Alphonso Smith, late King of Gibraltar, and deep curved Helen Morgan as Polly Adlervitch, the Russian danseuse who visits all their rooms in a business-like way, leaving green carnations as receipts...
...Australian slang "Bovril!", according to despatches describing Mark Gosling's misfortunes last week, is equivalent to "Applesauce...
...when the Winnie Mae roared into the East again. Still clipping off 150 m.p. it fol- lowed the Trans-Sib over the Ural mountains, landed after eleven hours at Novo Sibirsk. Another respite of eight hours, then on to Irkutsk and the half way mark, 1,050 mi. farther...