Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Callers on District Attorney Dewey last week were J. Richard ("Dixie") Davis, underworld lawyer whose "squealing" testimony won the Hines case for Dewey, and Hope Dare, the redheaded showgirl, long his mistress, whom he married last fortnight. After posing protrusively for newscameras, Davis, whom Dewey detectives still guard night & day...
One of the few things "Uncle Dan" Roper did for the New Deal, besides afford unintentional comic relief as Secretary of Commerce, was help Jim Farley organize the Young Democratic Clubs of America. Young Democrats are aged 21 to 39 and some 5,000,000 of them are now enrolled...
No correspondents could confidently guess the main topics of the Führer's talk. But they had a lot to talk about-Hungary, where Nazi economic dominance has steadily increased; Yugoslavia, where negotiations between Croats and Serbs were broken off, whose Premier made a mysterious flight to Italy...
Remember the Warwick? On St. George's Eve, 1918, she put out to sea for Zeebrugge, leading 74 scarecrow vessels- a nearly obsolete cruiser, some ferryboats, three old light cruisers loaded with concrete, two ancient submarines packed with explosives, and a swarm of tiny motor launches and smoke-boats...
The famed raid on Zeebrugge failed to rivet up the Bruges Canal, but it showed the world something and left Britain proud. When the diplomats have failed and the smoke gets thick, something happens to the blood of English men of action. Crecy, Blenheim, Waterloo, the Armada, Cape Trafalgar, Jutland...