Word: seconde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Lothian held a press conference the second day after his arrival. Embassy attendants goggled as he sat nonchalantly in a rattan chair on the portico beside the wide formal garden behind the Chancellery, answering reporters' questions directly if he could, with disarming evasions if he could...
...shadow touched old John Traczyka in his tiny Brooklyn luncheonette. Brooding, he turned his life savings of $1,000 over to the Polish war chest, jumped from his second-story window to death on the sidewalk...
Labor's Arthur Greenwood jumped up. He was cheered for 30 seconds. An act of aggression was committed 38 hours ago, he said. Why was Britain waiting? Liberal Sir Archibald Sinclair urged action. It was, said a correspondent, the 59th second of the 59th minute of the final hour...
...Colonel Beck. The second was Ignacy Moscicki, who became President. Upon the shoulders of the third fell the job Josef Pilsudski loved best...
...motive for writing a novel is explained indirectly in a commentary on his poetry: "Printing poetry is not only expensive," says Fearing, "but dangerous; it marks you as a public enemy. My first book [Angel Arms]disgraced me; my second [Poems'] bankrupted me; after my third one [Dead Reckoning] I was lucky to get away with my life." As his literary influences he names Composer Maurice Ravel, Painter George Grosz, Poets Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg. But no critic has accused him of imitativeness, except, at times, of himself...