Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chaps gobbling and guzzling instead of getting us our savings back," screamed an irate female as she led her followers into the Reichstag restaurant. "Where is Count Westarp?" roared a voice. "We want Admiral Tirpitz," raved the crowd in unison. Not finding them, several women did the next best thing and roundly told a few handy Deputies exactly what they thought of them in the choicest German phrases...
...Georgos II. The young King was moved by the best intentions, but was unable to keep his finger out of the political pie. This in itself was never a serious factor, but it entailed some friction and militated against political security at a time when calm was the one thing Greece needed. But the rise of ambitious soldiers like General Pangalos, who has been considered, even in Republican circles, as an adventurer with the Army behind him, was the chief cause of agitation. King Georgos was sent on an enforced vacation pending a plebiscite on the future status of Greece...
...Significance. War being an irrational thing, its aftermath verges on insanity. An analytical person, particularly a racial polyglot, can cope with the welter of causes and patriotisms only by adopting a sportive fatalism. Author Gerhardi's minor characters develop this sociological thesis on a very high plane of comedy. The major characters, who dwell on the border line of high tragedy, give a more intimate demonstration of the same philosophy...
...Hale George, 13. The two boys did not return to school. There was some whispering and then, without ostentation, the books and desks which they had used were burned. Their parents had emigrated from Bermuda where, the specialist affirmed, the lads had doubtless contracted, six years previously, the thing that afflicted them. For in spite of all reticence, the grisly fact, once discovered, could not be concealed. The two George boys had leprosy...
Donald B. MacMillan, before sailing from Wiscasset, Me., a fortnight ago on his expedition to scout the polar cap with planes, had said that the very first thing he would do upon reaching his base at Etah, Greenland, would be to look for Amundsen. Arriving at Sydney, N. S., Mr. MacMillan heard from Amundsen via U. S. friends of the latter. "PLEASE CONVEY TO COMMANDER MACMILLAN OUR DEEPEST GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION. WISHING HIM A GLORIOUS JOURNEY...