Word: shots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Results of George's and Elizabeth's 30-day, 10,000-mile visit to Canada and the U. S., during which they were seen by some 15,000,000 people, were intangible but evident. Canada had been given a shot of Empire enthusiasm which would be a long time wearing off. The U. S. and Britain had put on a show of good neighborliness that had dominated the world's news for a week. While the London Times augustly observed that "there was nothing political in the visit," the liberal News Chronicle probably reflected European reactions more...
After that other incidents meant little. Once photographers in an automobile crowded the Lindbergh car off a New Jersey road trying to get a shot at Baby Jon Lindbergh. Once there was another kidnap alarm because a canvas-covered truck, parked in front of the Morrow home in Englewood, drove away hastily when it attracted attention-police later discovered that it contained movie photographers. Finally on a December night in 1935 Charles Lindbergh and his family left the country. When they were at sea, his friend "Deke" Lyman of the New York Times broke the story of their exile...
...night last week German Police Sergeant Wilhelm Kniest was shot dead in a Kladno street, and the Nazis took advantage of the incident to throw their weight around. (Several days later a Czech policeman was killed at Nachod, 80 miles northeast of Prague. There the Nazis ordered only a "strict inquiry.") An official (German) version of the Kladno killing was that the sergeant was shot by a cowardly, unknown Czech. An unofficial (Czech) version was that he had been shot by another German policeman after a drunken brawl over a girl's favors. In Nachod, Germans claimed the Czech...
...chatting merrily with Lord and Lady Portarlington, got in her car outside her house in London's Belgrave Square and drove off with her guests to the cinema to see Wuthering Heights. Not until she returned hours later did the Duchess learn that she had narrowly missed being shot by an assassin...
...with Hunger Striker Terence McSwiney before he struck out in Cork, Ireland. She got the only interview with Empress Zita in Budapest after the second Karlist putsch failed. She borrowed $500 from Sigmund Freud to go to Warsaw and covered the Pilsudski revolution in evening dress. She was almost shot in Bulgaria. In Vienna she established a salon of sorts and entertained politicians, refugees, psychoanalysts, novelists, musicians and spies. In Budapest she married a Hungarian named Josef Bard, who was just as restless...