Word: necks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begun by the French this week. This hinted that the French may expect a real German push at her Belfort Gate, south end of the Maginot-Westwall stalemate, or through the Swiss side door. > Machine gunners on the forefront of the German advance wore steel armor covering them from neck to crotch. Weighing 30 Ibs. but only 1/20 in. thick, this gear was more psychological than practical. It would deflect only spent rifle or pistol bullets, was useless against aimed fire or grenades...
Observers last night predicted that Miss Waffle, and Eunice Martin, striking redhead from Waltham, would finish "neck and neck" in the competition...
Herbert Hoover is a humanitarian, an unpractical politician. His characteristic proposal, overlooking the very nature of warfare, was greeted with wide disapproval. Yet hardly had his critics' chorus died down when Mr. Hoover's one overnight convert, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, stuck out his tanned neck to echo the same idea. But Lindbergh went further than the Great Engineer. Denouncing Canada's entry into World War II, he asserted that "sooner or later" the U. S. must "demand the freedom" of all European possessions in the Western Hemisphere as a defensive tactic...
Ailing for more than a year, Walter P. Chrysler sat last week at his home on the shore of Long Island's Little Neck Bay. Not for months had he been seen around the docks where in days of health he loved to tinker at his motorboat engines with his derby awry and his white shirt rumpling up under his suspenders. Not for more than a year had his quick laugh been heard in any of the 24 Chrysler plants. His friends feared that Board Chairman Walter Chrysler, burned out at 64 by the gruelling drive from the roundhouse...
Says he, loquaciously: "After all, a corporation is considered a person, so there is no reason why it shouldn't have a personality. And since advertising is news, it ought to deal with current topics." Of his poetry: "I've been sticking my neck out with that stuff, but apparently I got away with...