Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absence of all proof, Nazis pack-jammed the Munich beer hall in. which Corporal Hitler and General Ludendorff attempted the abortive putsch of 1923. Neither was present last week, but a lawyer friend of Ludendorff, Herr Robert Schneider, worked the crowd up to frenzy with attacks on the Papacy "for actively cooperating to encircle Germany in 1914 and provoke the World War!" This villainy Orator Schneider, who occasionally got his Popes and their characteristics mixed in the torrent of his harangue, seemed to attribute chiefly to peace-loving Pius X. Shouts of "Traitor!" and "Expel him!" filled the beer hall...
Three hours later Berlin was bedlam. Boulevards were pack-jammed with people shouting and sobbing. Several correspondents, defeated by the job of trying to describe a nation mad with joy, cabled that Germany's transports of exultation were "INDESCRIBABLE...
...easement Germany was to agree to rearm without exceeding certain strict limitations, return to the League of Nations, sign the Eastern Locarno Pact and adhere to a general European pledge to resist "unprovoked air aggression" (TIME, Feb. 11). Instead of which Hitler had torn up the diplomatic pack of cards and reached for the jack pot. The game was over...
...with Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper. Author Lawrence, no champion of neat endings, left his lovers looking forward to the beginning of their life together. Author d'Orliac takes up the tale where Lawrence dropped it, reshuffles the cards and, by slipping a Gallic joker into the pack, makes the game come out exactly as she wants it. An implicit criticism of Lawrence's visceral philosophy, Lady Chatterley's Second Husband is no jest but a soberly serious attempt to answer a passionate argument...
...passengers, the 14,000-ton Ilsenstein and Gerolstein 180 each. All three could still carry 450 cars apiece as against the 600 they carried as freighters. When tourists found they could go to Europe and back for a flat rate of $150, take their cars along for $120, they pack-jammed the Bernstein ships...