Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furious little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia told off his police, later snarled to reporters: "I didn't carry any medals down to Police Headquarters." It turned out that Lepke had strolled the streets of New York City for two years, had done some drinking "downtown," disguised only by 20 pounds...
Peace. Strong on defense, Britain and France seemed weak on surprise. Neither gaunt Mr. Neville Chamberlain, taking his after-breakfast stroll as usual, nor serious M. Daladier, had the talent, training, or freakish love of shock to plan a move of the sort that Hitler had made. As profound gloom...
Adolf Hitler was once a friend of the masses; so was Benito Mussolini. But they were sandlot revolutionaries beside the "hall sweeper" of the red revolution, the tough from the Caucasus, Joseph Stalin. Once Joe Stalin was proud of his exploits, proud of the way he darted into Armenian stores...
On Tuesday, when Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop took off for Moscow, and on Wednesday, when he signed the Pact, all Germany was jubilant. The press gloated, called the Axis "blockade proof," chided the English & French for "groveling before the Kremlin." The radio gloated some more. By nightfall Berlin'...
On Thursday, when it got about that the British Parliament had been called in special session, that Great Britain and France were commencing to mobilize in earnest, the German people began to sober down. Now the streets were filled with marching men, not only youths but some of their fathers...