Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tsarist police as a revolutionist of mark. Bronstein's various escapes from Siberia were always theatrically brilliant, in contrast to the methodical escapes at the same period of Djhugashvili who is now called Stalin. Bronstein, when Tsarist Russia finally got too hot for him, escaped on a forged passport in which he whimsically gave himself the name of his last jailer, "Trotsky...
...continuous discharge book looks like a passport, has a serial number. Each seaman must get one from the Department of Commerce, which keeps a duplicate. In the book is space for the seaman's photograph, signature and fingerprints. There are spaces for official records of 84 voyages. Duplicate information must be sent to Washington. Seamen call them "fink books," claim that they lend themselves perfectly to blacklisting by the shipowners. If a seaman is an agitator or striker, all the line has to do is record the number of his book, then refuse ever to hire him again...
Exasperated ex-Storm Trooper Prince Bernhard then wrote a personal letter to Supreme Storm Troop Leader Adolf Hitler and two of the princesses were soon on their way to The Hague. The third sent word that she was "prevented from coming," presumably because the police were still holding her passport. Like all Germans, the two princesses who got through to The Netherlands were forbidden to take out of their country more than 10 marks ($4.02). They were promptly supplied with pocket money by Queen Wilhelmina, and Her Majesty, with motherly solicitude, saw to it that all twelve bridesmaids were supplied...
...historical magnificence, nor whisper to my grandchildren about the great and wonderful things I have witnessed." Partly because she got sick of anti-Bolshevik propaganda, Lola was on the verge of being converted to Bolshevism when she had the chance of escaping to Poland on a forged German passport. She took it. Working as a telephone girl in Warsaw, she overheard the first news of Germany's collapse. In the maelstrom that followed the Armistice, her knowledge of languages-she spoke five-was her life-preserver...
...then for Russia to write up the Revolution. Once Reed sent her a cable: "N. T. and I have fallen in love with each other. My heart is broken." N. T. was the wife of a mutual friend. Growing more exuberant as life got harder, Reed wrote across his passport in the War zone: "I am a German and Austrian spy. I do it for money...