Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizen in Vienna's Doebling section took a pot shot from his window at Storm Troopers, missed, killed himself. In a downtown café, a Jewish diner rose, sneered "Heil Hitler!" stabbed his table companions with a butcher knife, then slashed his own throat...
Cultural Cleanup. Nazi commissioners were appointed to direct all Viennese artistic and cultural activities, in which Jewish influence has always been particularly strong. Nazi heads took over the National Library, pride of the Habsburgs and Vienna, the state Burg-Theatre and Opera House, three Jewish-owned playhouses, the Society of the Friends of Music, the Vienna Symphony and the world-famed Vienna Philharmonic. Jewish Conductor Bruno Walter resigned as director of the Vienna Opera and as Nazis ripped down name plates on Max Reinhardt Platz in front of the Salzburg Festival Theatre, Jewish Regisseur Reinhardt severed his connections with...
...week's end the jails were filled to overflowing. Nazi officials took over the Northwest Railway Station, unused for traffic, converted it into a makeshift concentration camp. Crucifixes on the walls of devout Kurt Schuschnigg's Fatherland Front Headquarters, which had now become Nazi Headquarters, were torn down by Nazis who stuck them up with guffaws in the water closets...
...that year he picked up a likely-looking, $2-per-week ball boy in a Milwaukee tennis club, put a racket in his hand, coached him in caution and style so thoroughly that the Polish-American tennist now stands No. 3 in U. S. rankings. Further, Coach Beasley took Frankie away from Widow Anna Pajkowski, who was busy supporting five children, adopted him, sent him to Lawrenceville, kept him well stocked with Mercer Beasley rackets and white flannel pants...
...July 1936, he finished his most ambitious mural, eleven panels containing 140 life-size figures, for Madrid's monument to the founder of Spanish Socialism, Pablo Iglesias. A few nights later Painter Quintanilla made himself a hero of the Republic by directing the attack which took the Montaña barracks in Madrid...