Word: stood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until Herr Hitler arrived back in Berlin that Germans knew he had been away. The trip was entirely secret. All the time he was absent his guard of honor stood before the Chancellery, and his personal pennant, which flies only when he is in Berlin, was left...
...such a naturally dramatic scene to take. The child bent down over her sister, refusing to believe what she saw. She touched the dead face tenderly, and exclaimed at its coldness. She began to cry, then, and to talk of how beautiful the face had been. When she stood up, I put my arm around her, and with the little Polish I know, tried to comfort...
...with Alfred Duff Cooper as the crowds, still exuberant over the debate on Lloyd George's speech the day before (see p. 36), howled "Good old Duff! Good old Churchill!" Press photographers had a field day as Randolph, ex-Hearst newspaperman, now a subaltern with a mechanized unit, stood smiling with his blue-frocked bride. The ceremony was followed by a large buffet luncheon party at Admiralty House, complete with dukes and duchesses, where Winston downed two goblets of champagne, munched ice cream, commented lugubriously: "We must eat, we must...
...smoke-fogged suite in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, bargaining, eating, occasionally sleeping. Clarence Dillon wanted to sell the automobile company bought four years before by Dillon, Read & Co. from the widows of Motormakers John and Horace Dodge. Walter P. Chrysler, as expert a machinist as ever stood at a lathe, as smart a trader as ever swapped a horse, wanted...
...into Spain, Bessie and his fellow volunteers had to climb over the Pyrenees one windy, cold night with small paper parcels as their only baggage. At dawn they stood exhausted on a peak, their city overcoats whipping their legs, and looked south for 50 miles over peaceful country. On the way down they met three women dressed in black. "When we passed we saw that they were poor peasants; one young, one middleaged, one old. They smiled and said, 'Salud! Salud Compañeros!' The oldest said nothing...