Word: newe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shrove Tuesday in New Orleans. Early on this Mardi Gras morning, before the white folks' Rex comes in splendor to Canal Street, the Negroes are having their own carnival. Up squalid New Basin glides a barge, canopied in sacking, to the wharf at Rampart Street and Howard Avenue. Off the barge strides the King of the Zulus, right royal in black underwear, a hula skirt of sea grass, a tin crown. His sceptre is a broomstick, topped by a snow-white rooster. Preceding him is his Queen, behind are his capering dukes. The King mounts his throne-a decrepit...
...with only one band, pall bearers in tuxedos and white gloves, no grass skirts, no coconuts. Said John Metoyer's heir apparent to the Zulu presidency, Charles Fisher: "If it was me and I died right now, I'd have the biggest funeral in the history of New Orleans. I'd want exactly five bands and all that was due me. I'd want John Metoyer to do that for me, with all the trimmings...
...competitors and winner of the men's divisions: John Miller, of California, who took time off from punching cows to win a three-day trip to New York City by plane. He crocheted a bedspread...
...British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain appeared last week in the House of Commons for the first time in a fortnight. One of the first questions asked him was by Labor Leader Major Clement Richard Attlee: What steps did the Government propose to take to combat Germany's ruthless new Minenkrieg (mine warfare)? Mr. Chamberlain's reply startled the House and jarred the sensibilities of several nations. The Government, he said, would shortly authorize the Royal Navy to seize not only contraband goods suspected of going into Germany, but all "exports of German origin or ownership." Germany, lying...
...embargo. At the same time, Minenkrieg more deadly than ever was pressed home in British waters, over the sea as well as under it. German agents in Belgium and The Netherlands let those two neutrals know that they had better protest at the top of their lungs against this new invasion of their rights. This both countries did and in The Netherlands' case the protest conveyed as much real as dictated anguish, for one Hollander in three derives his livelihood from German trade. Minister Jonkheer Edgar Michïels van Verduyen, for the Dutch, was soon followed...