Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wandering Americans whose mission of "doing Europe," has been somewhat complicated by a sudden shortage of funds to meet hotel bills, seek escape by disguising themselves as two Italian organ grinders. Young Gretchen, a burgomaster's daughter, is suspected of wanting to elope in order to avoid marriage with the Governor of Zeeland. She is consequently imprisoned in a haunted mill. The two Americans, ConKidder and Kid Conner, rescue her. This unexpected disappearance from the mill occasions the offering of a large reward. A telegram is at once dispatched to the Hague summoning Sherlock Holmes, containing the declaration "money...
...sudden death of Mayor Cermak, in the midst of such tragic circumstances, is certain to evoke a stream of comment, some of it sober and sympathetic, some of it hectic and immoderate. The temptation to dramatize his rise from poverty and obscurity to the throne of a harassed metropolis will not be resisted for long. Still, it is true that his stewardship was, for two years, remarkably well acquitted. And he did come perilously close to confounding his party by an unwelcome fulfillment of their promise that he would be "the best mayor Chicago ever...
Chicago, rather paradoxically, was the birthplace of Walter Fisher's aristocratic civic reform, the home of the berserk Municipal Voters' League, and the zealots of "efficient government." But she will probably choose to return, after a sudden and dizzy eminence of virtue, to her comfortable post-war role of the protesting victim. For sixty years Chicago has been a great, a wealthy, and a powerful city. And for almost sixty years her industrious citizenry has submitted to the control of an incredibly arrogant, mendacious, and corrupt chain of municipal dynasties. Her example, although not solitary, serves to bring the issues...
...offer stirred the meeting to sudden action. A special wire was opened to Washington over which the Comptroller of the Currency and the R. F. C. directors were told what was happening. When it was suggested that Wall Streeters might get money into the Ford pot, Mr. Ford flared: "I'll not put a nickel in it if they're in-not a nickel...
Unscheduled was the sudden sputter and stopping of his engine. He slanted his biplane toward the ground looking for an open space, saw only the regimented houses of Chicago suburbs. With his hand frozen to the stick, he rode the wind into a suburban street, ripped into telephone wires, stripping the plane's wings. The fuselage dropped lightly to the ground. Pilot, notes and aerometeorograph were undamaged. Next dawn he was at work again above Chicago, since the Weather Bureau lets its airplane observation contracts on condition that pilots have two planes with instruments always ready...