Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danzig Bay. Up in the heavily wooded section south of the city, picnicking still went on. Couples promenaded on Danzig's patrician avenues lining the canals. City Hall was open as usual and the Nazi-operated radio station invited listeners to "come and see Danzig and spend your summer holidays here...
...probably saved the skins of thousands of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's sympathizers. Moreover, the Latin Americans always demanded (and most of the time got) safe conduct for their refugees to the border. Argentina once threatened to send a battleship to Spain to protect refugees held at the summer embassy in San Sebastian, and Argentine protection allowed Ramon Serrano Suner, Minister of Interior in the present Franco Cabinet, to escape from a Madrid prison to Nationalist territory. Peru at one time protected 360 Nationalists...
England last year gave the world the Lambeth Walk. This summer England expects every man and woman to do a dance to a corny waltz tune whose words...
Last year Professor Wodzicki shipped two storks from their summer nests near Butyny, Poland, to Berlin, where they were loosed with magnets strapped to their heads. Idea was that the interference from this headgear would prevent the birds from taking their bearings by terrestrial magnetism. They got back to Butyny all right, despite the magnets. That was not deemed conclusive enough to rule out all possibility of magnetic guidance, however, so the professor sent six more Polish storks to London this spring, and they too wore magnetic hats when set free...
Most big-time radio programs like to take summer vacations because: 1) their performers usually need the rest, 2) radio listening falls off during the summer. Many sponsors this year, to keep the pot boiling during the dog days, are replacing their regular shows with others less expensive, some are giving their time over to try-out shows or sustaining programs, taking advantage of new policies of both NBC and CBS which, under some circumstances, assure vacationing advertisers of their accustomed air spots again, come fall...