Word: neckar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crumbling adobe structures beneath falling walls of water. Confused despatches estimated the destruction far above the flood of 1889 when hundreds of Leónites lost their lives. Terrific lightning displays accompanied the deluge in the Lake Constance region, Germany, killing many as the storms swept northward. The rivers Neckar, Elbe, Weser, Oder and Rhine inundated hayfields, vegetable gardens, vineyards, doing inestimable damage. "All men to the dikes," flashed over the country's telegraph lines...
...handsome member of the Black Hand or perhaps the Black Shirt Club, and a glorious Italian moon, that is as glorious a moon as moons in Italy may be. But Edda was not seduced by the promise of a wild ride behind the screaming Stork for necking on the Neckar. "I am a disciplined Fasrist," she cried with ambidextrous gestures of Latinate obedience. "Without the permission of my Duce. I refuse to move." Nor did she, Submission to parental authority triumphed supreme...