Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cousin of our story. Or is ours the American version of the French story? Is there an English cousin? Will this story pop up wherever Hitler's mere existence is a blight or a threat? It is almost a folk tale already. I should like to hear further news...
Before long the placid inhabitants of the placid Dutch seat of government were spreading the news that for some unexplained reason-and they feared the reason was ominous-Leopold III, King of the Belgians, was paying an unheralded visit to their Queen Wilhelmina. Despite a constant drizzle, a sizable crowd gathered on the sidewalks outside Her Majesty's little Palace...
Most of last week's European happenings were bad news for Germany. Her friends became increasingly critical. Her allies appeared lukewarm, if not positively fickle. Her enemies were unsparing, and, after the Munich bombing, her home front appeared far from secure. In sum, it looked as though Nazi Germany, having long feared and dreaded encirclement, had managed to kick herself in her domestic stomach and encircle herself...
Some bang-up news shots of some of the nation's best upset football games are a real addition to the program, but the second feature, "Hero For a Day," would only be "Here For a Day" in anyone else's language...
Harking back to the flagpole sitting days of the roaring twenties," the News said that the five seniors had only taken with them to their redoubt the necessities of life: a portable radio, blankets, a dictionary, and a copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson...