Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barrows observed dryly: "We always handle Democrats that way." South Carolina's Johnston danced with Host Hoffman's secretary. Utah's Blood was attentive to the wife of North Carolina's Hoey. Neither the Governor of North Carolina nor the Governor of South Carolina took a drink. Alabama's Bibb Graves and his lady, Dixie Bibb Graves, the new Senator from Alabama, were harassed by newshawks seeking statements about Associate Justice Hugo Black (see p. 10). Only Florida's Cone, who talked long and earnestly to Indiana's Townsend, seemed bored...
...discovered that in days of old each noble knight wore a sponge in the crotch of his iron trousers. Meantime, disclosed last week were the shocking circumstances, hitherto unsuspected by most Spaniards, in which last autumn the Leftist Cabinet, then headed by Premier Largo Caballero ("The Spanish Lenin") took flight from Madrid...
...Minister Neville Chamberlain ended his holiday in Scotland, resumed the helm at No. 10 Downing Street. Just before he set foot in Whitehall it was suddenly announced by British officials not at Geneva but in London that Britain and France would now take a step which Germany and Italy took a few months ago, that is, withdraw their warships from the Non-Intervention Patrol which has been supposed to keep munitions from entering Spain, although actually it has been a farce...
Five years ago Alois set up an unpretentious little café near Berlin's Charlottenburg station. The place took on the air of an officers' club in the early days of the Hitler regime. There burly Schutzstaffel would show off their blonde, elegant ladies. Alois' little café prospered to such an extent that last week he opened a showy modern restaurant, the Alois Tearoom, at No. 3 Wittenberg-Platz, near Berlin's fashionable west end. "I call my place the Alois because I do not want to advertise with the name," Alois admitted, but three...
...converts but most are Negroes of Semitic origin from Africa-chiefly Ethiopia, whose Coptic Church bears some Hebrew ritual traits. Harlem's only black Jewish synagog is run by a bearded Negro named Moshe Ben Moshe Ben Yehuda, who was born in Lagos, West Africa, but took the U. S. name of Wentworth Arthur Matthew. Rabbi Matthew is a D. D. from the University of Berlin, has studied in Palestine's Tel Aviv and at the Pittsburgh Bible Institute. He believes that black Jews are descended from Jacob, white from Esau, twin sons of Isaac, and that...