Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strassen frei, Fenster zu!! Clear the streets! Close the windows!" bellowed imperious policemen patrolling the battle-scarred districts in armored cars. After nearly 50 policemen had been wounded they warned that anyone appearing at an open window would be shot. Despite the warning, curiosity was too much for three old women and for Charles Eray Mackay, a newsgatherer from New Zealand. Reporter Mackay ventured out on the street, the old women out on their balconies. All four were shot dead by the watchful police...
Than plump Lieut. Commander Joseph Montague Kenworthy, M. P., the Liberal who turned Laborite two years ago "To Get Action," the statesman who once said of H. G. Wells, "the old gentleman has gone gaga," the British Laborite party has no more conspicuous member. Last week as plump Commander Kenworthy was preparing for a hotly contested general election, his mother had a fist fight with her landlady...
Came last week an elderly Berlin shoemaker commissioned to construct a new pair of presidential shoes. Gazing professionally at the gnarled von Hindenburg feet, the old tradesman decided to equip the new von Hindenburg shoes with solid arch-supporters. President von Hindenburg tried on the new shoes, walked across the room, walked around the garden. His knee pains ceased at once. In a few days his swellings had disappeared. Later an official communique was issued that President von Hindenburg's convalescence was at an end. How the merciful cobbler was rewarded, officialdom neglected...
Watchful observers noted that the new deputies, all hand-picked by Il Duce, are nearly all men of elder-middle age. The one exception is 25-year-old Deputy Marcelo Diaz, son of the late Marshal Diaz, "Foch of Italy...
Since the eating of garlic and the drinking of slivovitza (plum brandy) are old Serbian pastimes, the fact that their prohibition could be issued and enforced was considered a triumph for King Alexander's dictatorship...