Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remaining escort, the cruiser Southampton, in an anti-aircraft demonstration, peppering a black smoke shell cloud with hits that puffed white against it. Another day, and on the second anniversary of Their Majesties' coronation, the cruisers fired a 21-gun salute, and George issued the welcome order to "splice the main brace" (extra grog for all hands). Three hundred and fifty miles off Cape Race, 1,350 miles from Quebec, the Empress' experienced crew got a whiff of the dank, penetrating "smell of icebergs." Soon the bergs showed up, scant hundreds of yards off the Empress' bows...
...Warsaw and the rest of Poland solemnly commemorated the fourth anniversary of the death of Marshal Josef Pilsudski, Polish hero and dictator, but not Danzig. There the Nazi Senate prohibited any ceremonies on the ground that in the present tension they could not guarantee order. Polish retort was that since the Germans could not keep order, the Polish Army should move in and do it. When a Polish bookshop proprietor displayed the old Marshal's picture his windows were smashed. Nazi police conveniently arrived too late to arrest the vandals...
...Plymouth, has never allowed her Conservative Party affiliations to interfere with her penchant for reform. One of her pet hates is Demon Rum; another is flogging, a practice still legal in the British Navy and British prisons. Unruly sailors are rarely flogged now, but stern judges sometimes order the lash as punishment for particularly brutal civil crimes...
...debtor nations the system of subsidized barter might have worked satisfactorily enough, but the Nazis themselves were slow to deliver finished goods in return for foodstuffs and raw materials, and they frequently demoralized world markets for their suppliers by reselling coffee, tobacco, cotton, etc., at knock-down prices in order to get needed foreign exchange...
...plays in Union Pacific. Filed three days in advance, as California law requires, the names of S. Arlington Brugh and Ruby Stevens attracted no notice. The nervous bridegroom about to break millions of feminine hearts kept a nervous justice of the peace up until 12130 a. m. in order not to be married on the 13th of the month...