Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Politics. D'Annunzio had been elected Deputy from Ortona de Mare in 1897. Fellow legislators dubbed him "The Deputy of Beauty." He took his seat on the Right but one day the tumult and shouting from the Socialist benches impressed him. He stilled the Chamber. "I walk toward life," he announced, and in full drama crossed over to the Left. But he did not stay long, quit Socialism and politics...
Discreetly continuing never to express opinions in the Soviet Union, U. S. Ambassador Joseph Davies took his accustomed front-row seat as the latest Big Bolshevik trial opened in Moscow last week. He had already learned from the official Soviet newspaper Pravda ("Truth") that Death was going to be meted out to all 21 prisoners (TIME, March 7), no matter what happened in the courtroom. Pravda is seldom wrong in such a case. Thus the U. S. Ambassador could look across at the witness box to the right of the judges' table and figure that certain death hung over...
...perform a feat. In the first period of the second game of the playoffs, when the Ranger goalie was removed to a hospital after being struck in the eye by a whizzing puck, Manager Patrick, who had been out of the game since 1921, came from the sidelines, took his place. Never a goalie in his playing days, Patrick allowed the puck to slip by him only once, saved the game. In the third game, with a borrowed goalie, the Rangers...
...French, ouverture means gap. Toussaint took his surname from his ability to create gaps in the enemy lines...
Chief feature of the Investment News was a daily column of market advice run under the by-line of "Waldo Young." Its author, Editor Clarence Hebb, unwilling to leave Wall Street, announced he would continue the column as a broker's tipsheet. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal took over Investment News's 6,000 subscriptions, editorialized: "The business recession, rising costs and taxes upon gross -problems with which all business men are familiar-contributed to the final decision to suspend. More will be heard from this ghastly combination...