Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who have said that a new war would have no heroes reckoned without such as Stefan ("The Stubborn") Starzynski, Mayor of Warsaw, a truly great fighter, very marrow of the very bone of Warsaw's hopeless 20-day defense. Like a captain who goes down with his ship...
If the winner faints, cusses or thanks Providence the audience hears none of it, because NBC dares not take the responsibility for airing what goes on at rainbow's end. In Woodcarver Drouin's case, Ben Grauer reported that he had said: "I ought to buy that boy...
Mu$1co, an idea born in Chicago, cradle of the slot machine, is a whopping success in Illinois. Listeners play it with Mu$1co cards, distributed each week by Kroger and National Tea Co. groceries in Chicago, Peoria and Rockford. Made up like Bingo cards, they have five rows of...
The subject, How Can We Defend Democracy in America Now? and the debaters (Harold Ickes and Hugh Johnson) developed an odd sort of sparring match, with both Administration-Baiter Johnson and New-Dealer Ickes poking at the solar plexus of the Administration's war policy-its Morgan-du Pont...
Next day in the House of Lords Minister of Information Lord Macmillan gave out details. Of the Ministry's famed 999, some 450 staff members remained to write and distribute propaganda. The new department took over 399 censors and press relations officials. By discreetly adding these two figures, the...