Word: messe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explaining that he had started out without knowing just where the jail was, lost his way. Lugging well-labeled suitcases, he marched inside the dingy red building, was searched and fingerprinted. Past the cell-block where ordinary jailbirds are cooped he was led into the mess hall reserved for "short-termers," then into the short-termers' dormitory. Next morning he took up his duties as file clerk. His jailer announced that he would be allowed outdoors "twice a week," could entertain visitors in the basement on Sunday night...
...disgrace, since everyone knows whose fault it is that Soviet railways remain in an appalling mess, Comrade Andreyev was honored by being appointed one of the four potent secretaries of the Communist Party Central Committee. Into the curiously bloody and repugnant job of Commissar of Railways, Dictator Stalin last week put big. iron-nerved Comrade Lazar Kaganovich who has just built the first eight miles of Moscow's projected 50-mile subway...
Some say that it's all concerning a matter that happened in a lecture room where one was a monitor, Others say that it's due to a mess surrounding a very rare library book. There are even some who lay the blame to a certain parking space at a dance one night. But they're all wrong...
...England contentment reigned that Canada's boorish "Mitch" had made such a mess of his boordom. Last year, as one New Dealer to another, President Roosevelt sent to Premier Hepburn the old Ontario mace carried off by raiding U. S. troops (or "brigands" as Ontarians called them) in 1813. Last week this mace came near to being the only thing "Mitch" could claim has been obtained by the Province of Ontario under his Premiership...
...Cincinnati swung up into position, dropped lifeboats. Within an hour 81 officers and crew had been safely bundled aboard the rescue ships. But long before the last survivor had been picked up all that was left of the $4,000,000 Macon, its chief radio operator and a Filipino mess boy had been swallowed up by the Pacific off Point...