Word: shadower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soul and life in America to go, we know not where, only to leave here before Hitler strikes at New York." Blankly, sadly the women went up the gangplank. Fortnight before, another ship, the Marques de Comillas, had taken 180 Germans. Hitler's people were fleeing before the shadow of events to come...
Just after 9 o'clock a dark shadow was sighted; an unidentified vessel hove to. She was probably Vittorio Veneto. Sir Andrew grunted a terse order: "Close position...
...their pre-World War I heyday U. S. Socialists boasted a potent press. Under Debs's leadership the Socialist weekly Appeal to Reason ran its circulation up to 5,000,000; the New York Call once had a million readers. Of such might, the mere remaining shadow is the Manhattan weekly, the New Leader. Under forced draft it pulls 43,000 readers-mostly among Manhattan and Hollywood malcontents and old Socialists who sigh for the good old days. Its assistant editor-tireless, 5 ft. 2 in. Victor Riesel-is also most of the New Leader's editorial staff...
...College with their presence. But still more amazing is Technology's unawareness of Harvard's unawareness. Confident that all good Harvard men spend several hours a day returning their insults, the engineers annually teach their new freshmen that the University and the Institute are engaged in mortal combat. This shadow-boxing has gone on as long as living Tech men remember...
...caviar--served in bowls! The quantity of the rare dish never fazed him, but to eat caviar as a salad course was verging on the barbaric. Mores Americanos curdled his Russian taste on one other occasion, when his son started reading such magazines as Ranch Romances, The Shadow and Terror Tales. The Professor became quite worried. In Russia, Tolstoi was the only drugstore literature. Could his child be moronic...