Word: moving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when six feet away, low from the hips, hands at sides. Move three feet forward, watching King closely. If he extends his hand, bow again before grasping it. Wait for him to speak. Don't make a personal answer or ask questions. Before withdrawing, bow again, retreat backward (having surveyed your course for chairs, wheelbarrows or other obstacles) and bow again before leaving the room...
...death of Marshal Josef Pilsudski, Polish hero and dictator, but not Danzig. There the Nazi Senate prohibited any ceremonies on the ground that in the present tension they could not guarantee order. Polish retort was that since the Germans could not keep order, the Polish Army should move in and do it. When a Polish bookshop proprietor displayed the old Marshal's picture his windows were smashed. Nazi police conveniently arrived too late to arrest the vandals...
Post readers found the articles sensational; Post editors were proud of their scoop. General Krivitsky told how Stalin had tried to set up a puppet state in Spain, how he had shot his generals on framed evidence furnished by the German Gestapo, how his every political move was directed toward making a deal with Hitler. Although a few informed critics questioned some of General Krivitsky's facts and many open-minded persons questioned his disinterest, no one questioned his identity until last fortnight, when the editors of the Communist New Masses popped out from behind the curtains and. leveling...
...piece of paper and put it in his pocket. Then careful Dr. McCreedy went home and, opening his front door, looked down into the laughing face of his 19-month-old daughter, Nancy Irene. He swung her up and clasped her in his arms. That was a fatal move. The infected scalpel in his pocket pierced the child's abdomen. In spite of immediate attention, two days later Dr. McCreedy's daughter was dead...
Nevertheless, the price of spot cotton last week was up to 9½?, highest level in nearly two years, and 1½? above the price of cotton for delivery after the new crop starts to move in August. The shortage has become so serious that the British spinners in Lancashire protested bitterly last March and the New York Cotton Exchange last week formally recognized the squeeze...