Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eventually the princess is restored to her father, but only after she has been rescued by Uncle Stanley, who is emboldened by several gallons of gypsy wine, absorbed inadvertently while he was bottling the liquid by a siphoning process. Incidentally, this bottling scene ranks as possibly the funniest we've yet encountered; and for an effective drug to ease you back to work after the pleasures of vacation, we can recommend nothing better...
...seasoned Vladimir Poliakoff, the "Augur"' of the New York Times, who wrote: "Behind the smoke screen of the Franco-German tussle over the Rhineland... an internal political crisis is slowly maturing in London. No less is in the balance than the choice of a successor to Stanley Baldwin as leader of the Conservative Party and as Prime Minister...
Britain's Signature. In the House of Commons a dog-tired-looking Anthony Eden finally rose to speak. He had spent the week-end in the country with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. On his return to London he had participated in folding up the Council of the League of Nations which had met in London to deal with the Rhineland crisis. The Council had voted Germany guilty of violating the Versailles Treaty and the Locarno Pact but had done nothing toward punishing these violations. As their final decision at London last week, the Geneva statesmen adjourned indefinitely to meet...
...played in Montreal last week. The two teams, Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Maroons, skated onto the ice at 8:30 p. m. At the end of the three standard 20-minute periods, neither team had made a goal. Because the rules in the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup playoffs prohibit ties, they went on playing...
...dozen-odd playoff games are the only really significant ones of the year. In them the half-dozen leading teams battle for possession of the world's championship Stanley Cup. The Brobdingnagian encounter between Maroons and Red Wings last week was the first of a three-out-of-five series between the group leaders. The Red Wings-ablest team in the League on their pre-playoff record, built around a crack forward line (Larry Aurie, Herb Lewis, Marty Barry) which scored no points during the season-won the second game, 3-to-0 and the third, in Detroit...