Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer and his ally ended their talk, the press attack on Poland did not end, but slacked off perceptibly. Customs negotiations between Danzig and Poland, scheduled to begin the next day, were postponed a few days-obviously, said correspondents in Danzig, to let Nazis find out what had been decided on the mountaintop. League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig, Dr. Carl Burckhardt conferred with Herr Hitler, launching a new crop of rumors: 1) that a settlement of the Danzig problem was in the air; 2) that Danzig might be part of a general European settlement. Count Ciano went back...
Last week Nazi journals forlornly counterattacked, warning that chic, slim figures do not fit into German life, that dresses which are good-looking in one season are the same the next, that German men do not like to see their wives in a new dress or hat every few months, that women should learn "to abandon a dress when it is used up and not when it becomes unfashionable." Prime mover in this audacious campaign is brush-haired, portly Dr. Robert Ley (pronounced Lie), Labor Front Leader whose tirades against alcohol, nicotine and debauchery have long excited the mirth...
...Next day Engineer Hecox told Eureka County coroner's jury a hair-raising tale. He said he had spotted a green tumbleweed covering the spot where his locomotive had run amok. Beneath, the rails had been loosened...
...were soon holding sales that ran into the millions. Auctioneer Kirby sold such famous Victorian paintings as Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair, which Commodore Vanderbilt bought and gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1922, with borrowed money, Kirby put up the Madison Avenue building. Next year he sold the American Art Association to rich, eccentric Cortlandt Field Bishop for $500,000 and retired, having auctioned $60,000,000 worth of art in 40 years. Founder Kirby died a year later...
...that rate (128,000 paid daily average) Grover Whalen will have about 24,000,000 admissions by the Fair's close next October 30-a little better than one-third his prediction. With luck, attendance might increase in the cooler autumn months, total 32,000,000 at season's end. Last March a Gallup poll said 13,000,000 people planned to attend the Fair, 19,000,000 hoped they could. Last week another poll showed that: 1) two-thirds of the planners had made 2.3 visits apiece to the Fair; 2) the remaining third were going this...