Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evident last week after the Dictator finished his annual Reichstag address (TIME, Feb. 6). Because he announced no troop movements, made no mention of forthcoming invasions and delivered his address in rather more subdued tones than usual, many correspondents, editorial writers, even statesmen called the speech "mild." Those who took the trouble to wade through the long, formless address, however, discovered that it was actually one of the most sensational and threatening talks ever made by the head of a State. Excerpts...
...traveled incognito in a private compartment. Few days after his death, his 80-year-old uncle, Leopold Desfourneaux, was appointed his temporary successor, to execute one Maurice Pelorge, murderer, who had refused the traditional pardon (always offered to the first victim of a new executioner). Connoisseurs complained that Desfourneaux took ten or 15 seconds to Deibler's customary three or four, lacked his nephew's finesse...
...Service signed up for its 13th year over NBC. Like many another radio old timer, the Cities Service program got its start with Graham McNamee announcing. First feature was silvery Edwin Franko Goldman's cornety band. When the program was a half-year old, Canadian Conductor Rosario Bourdon took over, be gan making the Cities Service hour the big-time show it is today. He handed the baton over last February to Dr.* Frank Jeremiah Black, an old timer...
...physical build Pablo resembled the small, robust, dark-skinned mother whose name he later took...
...company's timetable, but on the rhythm of the song he steered by-gay or melancholy, galloping or slow. The mind of little Pablo appears in a revealing flash in a story of his being given a pair of roller skates: instead of skating on them he took them apart and, with huge amusement, attached each pair of wheels to the flippers of an enormous tortoise, whose slow progress around the patio had annoyed...