Word: nights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wall. One learned that George had many feminine admirers. One discovered an intimate friend of Miss Herrick's, unearthed a long, involved story about Miss Herrick leaving home, getting a job at a big perfumer's, going back home, popping into the friend's house at night and morning in tears. Determinedly, Mrs. Herrick told Justice Wasservogel: "Eileen said, 'Mother, I don't want you to criticize George behind his back; I would like you to criticize him to his face,' and I said, 'Eileen, I would much prefer doing that...
...night last week 14 men met in Washington's exclusive Cosmos Club for dinner. Ostensible purpose: to honor bouncing young Herman B. Wells, president of Indiana University. Real purpose: a get-acquainted meeting for Paul Vories McNutt and the Janizariat of the New Deal...
...this point riot cars full of Schutzstaffeln (Hitler Elite Guards) took over. Rolling up to the university, they unlimbered machine guns, began to haul off "ringleaders." In dormitories, where many who had not turned out for the demonstration were still in their night clothes, some of the students hastily piled up barricades of tables, beds and chairs. Others fled into the night amid a, spray of Nazi machine-gun bullets. When the skirmish ended, scores of the wounded were carried off to Prague hospitals...
...Guard garrison was raised to 10,000, the city placed under martial law. A terse communique soon announced the execution of three more Czechs, two of them policemen, "because of acts of violence against a German," which were not revealed. Czech Communists meanwhile stuck up in Prague during the night hammer-&-sickle posters advising Germans to "Clear out before Stalin comes...
...strange Eli team in the first half. They failed to capitalize on obvious breaks, but drove the length of the field on straight football and their own night to a touchdown...