Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uncle Dan. To the general excitement and enthusiasm in Washington was added the voice of Secretary of Commerce "Uncle Dan" Roper. Recession psychology, said he, had now become "a shadow of its former self." Forgetting the President's metaphor and mixing his own still further, he added: "Economic skies are definitely clearing...
...Strathmore and Kinghorne, wife of the 83-year-old 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Descendant of England's famed Cavendish and Bentinck families, the daughter of a clergyman grandson of the. third Duke of Portland, the Countess was the mother of ten children, six of them still living. By far her most noted child is England's Queen Elizabeth, consort of George...
...zero hour the sit-downers were still sitting. Police threw tear gas bombs into the two buildings, charged with swinging batons, swung their fists, used stinging riding whips on squatters who showed fight. As the rabble army fled toward Vancouver's poor but sympathetic East End, they picked up post office inkwells and pieces of metalwork, hurled them at department-store windows. Damage was estimated at $50,000, 40 sit-downers and police had to be hospitalized. Among the most seriously hurt was a former Communist leader, Steve Brodie, now styled as secretary of the Single Unemployed Protective Association...
...have none, he had a vasectomy performed on himself. This was only temporary emasculation, ruled the judges, and might be undone by rejoining the ends of the spermatic ducts. So Farmer Peter had himself castrated. Last week at Debrecen, the judges, mindful of the marvels of modern reconstructive surgery, still feared that Peasant Peter might somehow become fertile, trick anyone who lent him money on his entailed acres. They postponed permission to mortgage...
...Bersaglieri are famed for their ability to move for hours at a steady trot. However, no nimble-footed sharpshooter was brash enough to forge ahead and when the startled populace at Faenza rushed into the streets to welcome Il Duce, he was still in the lead. Congratulating the Bersaglieri on their condition, he gave their commander 3,000 lire ($157) to buy them special mess kits...