Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many Berliners heard the relatively feeble Freedom Station, but in a delirium of joy they promptly spread the news by word of mouth. Vegetable and flower sellers, arriving to open their stalls in Berlin markets, promptly pooled their pfennigs to buy cheap brandy and new cider. French Premier Edouard Daladier was supposed by the jubilant Germans to have secured the "Armistice," and in Berlin's huckster-jammed Wittenberg Platz a tipsy citizen, balancing on a chair with glass in hand, bellowed a toast: "Daladier is smarter than we thought...
...Berliner who has two sons and a son-in-law at the front-the beer cost him a month's salary. Meanwhile at least one group of the Hitler Youth, after holding a special meeting to celebrate the Führer's latest triumph, rang doorbells and spread the news...
...disease spread to a dozen, a score, a hundred. Patients lay moaning in bed. Others, whipped by mad fear, beat against the screened windows, grappled with attendants. Some of the attendants fell ill. All were panicky. Every night kitchen boys and orderlies disappeared. Over 45 ran away...
...long thereafter (in 1923) he retired, set about meeting all the poets. Plutocrat Amy Lowell charmed him by providing her guests with bath towels to spread across their knees in defense against her 17 slavering sheepdogs. In Rapallo he found a note at his hotel from Ezra Pound: "The fact that your taste in poetry is exectable shouldn't prevent us from having a vermouth together...
...Dutch Airman Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker in his slickest airflow style, sank in the Hudson River near Yonkers, N. Y. Honeymooning on the borrowed boat were a bride and groom of five hours, friends of Fokker, when a fire started in an ornamental fireplace in an after cabin, spread quickly, driving honeymooners and crew overboard. At the launching a year ago, Designer Fokker mused: "I hope it will be obsolete within two years. . . . That is good. That is progress. Today there are too many yachts that outlive their owners...