Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duchess' disclosure had an air of authenticity because she is an M. P. who gets around, keeps her ears and eyes open. Since 1923 she has been a member from the backward Scottish agricultural constituency of West Perth and Kinross. At the outbreak of the two-year-old war in Spain, she refused to take sides. Year later she became publicly pro-Leftist, accepted the chairmanship of Britain's National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief and inaugurated the scheme which brought 4,000 Leftist moppets as refugees to England. Last April she resigned as Government whip, now votes...
Because of swift currents and shark-infested waters, escape from Devil's Island-until 1895 a leper colony-is considered impossible, has never succeeded. From the mainland, however, escape in Small open canoes down the river, across mudbanks, finally to some distant friendly shore is not only possible but, judging from the number of successful attempts, a rigorous yet comparatively easy undertaking...
...money to buy and outfit a canoe. A convict is able to make from 25 centimes (less than 1? to 1.5 francs a day, must save many years before he can hope to buy even enough food to last him on what is usually a ten or twelve-day open-ocean trip. Chief feature of a French sentence to Guiana is that it means just half of what it says. A seven-year sentence is really for 14 years-seven years at hard labor, seven years as a libéré (freedman) confined to French Guiana. Any sentence...
...open sore if not outright scandal that was long French Guiana made little impression on successive French governments until Léon Blum became Premier. Then the penal colony was described as a failure. The escaped convicts were said to reflect on Frenchmen everywhere. Explains the bill finally adopted: "Such a situation cannot be prolonged without doing injury to the prestige of France...
...expected to sell for its exclusive coverage from 30 to 75 minutes of air time on its Red and Blue networks, had mustered 146 stations from Boston to Honolulu, had a beam open for Portuguese short waving to Brazil, another for Spanish reporting to other South and Central American listeners, a third to carry the German account to Challenger Schmeling's homeland. It was to be the biggest sport broadcast ever...