Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Chief of Police Jagow. (He had originally called on her to complain about her dancing naked in a Berlin night club, remained to engage her for the German Intelligence.) Back in France, she continued leading her conspicuous life, apparently unafraid. The French knew she was spying but could pin nothing on her. They decided to deport her, whereat she broke down and offered to spy for France. They sent her to Belgium to work on General Moritz von Bissing, the German military governor. She proceeded from there to London where she told the British Intelligence Service...
...them assured me several times that, as a tank officer, he was the winkle on the pin if war should ever begin in earnest. ... He enjoyed his dark saying as a priceless joke...
Professor Rugg's critics accused him of disrespect to history and learning. His chief critic, practical Professor Howard E. Wilson, then at University of Chicago, investigated schools to see how the Rugg "fusion" plan worked, pronounced it a failure. But Professor Wilson found that he could pin no roses on the old-fashioned textbooks, either. Three years ago he investigated old-fashioned upState New York schools for the New York Regents, learned that many of the State's future citizens thought that habeas corpus was a disease, liabilities were assets and poverty was best defined as "the boyhood...
Among others, a lot of Alexander's arranging was done for the old Chick Webb band. In fact, if you pin him down to it, he'll admit that he was responsible for the re-birth of. "A-Ticket A-tasket", plus a lot of Chick's really good arrangements. Alexander is justly rated as one of the best in the country at arranging, and his stuff for his own band is very good...
...Lebanon, Ohio, Mrs. Louella Paugh bequeathed to her daughter-in-law one rolling-pin, one potato-masher...