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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strongest in Westphalia, the Feme of 700 years ago had a Robin Hood flavor. But by 1500, the Feme had become a synonym for persecution. Membership had grown above 100,000 and many used the protection of the Feme for their own ends. But such was its terror that less than 100 years ago scrolls sealed by the Feme could still be found in German archives. On the seals was written: "None may read unless he be a juror of the Feme"-and none had read...
...about CINCUSA (Commander in Chief of United States of America) as a synonym for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the President, F.D.R...
...Emma Cons' musical, driving niece, Lilian Baylis, who brought the Old Vic back into the limelight by putting genius ahead of gentility. She introduced the new "moving pictures," then opera and concerts, finally the repertory company that made the Old Vic a worldwide synonym for Shakespeare...
...that the Canadians are in all-out action, Crerar has become more affable and relaxed than he used to be. When his army crossed the Seine and chased the Germans beyond the Somme, he observed that the action was not a fight but an unprintable synonym for a ratrace...
...from a captured howitzer, Mosby smashed a locomotive, got away with a $173,000 Union payroll. Often trapped, he invariably escaped by charging headlong into his would-be captors. Often wounded and reported dead, he always turned up again more daring and dangerous than before. His name became "a synonym in the South for brave deeds and daring escapades, a byword in the North for fear and hatred and chagrin...