Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Mr. Morgan took the box of paper back and had each sheet bound into a copy of the 350-page Democratic campaign book. This book, in which many businesses had bought advertising space, was sold last year at the Democratic convention for $2.50 a copy. With the President's autograph bound in, the same book, dressed up in leather covers, was offered as a de luxe President's edition at $250 a copy. Letters went out urging people to buy, accompanied by contracts, suggestively filled out for the purchase of four copies for $1,000. In case...
Riding slowly around the ranks, King George took up his station at the reviewing stand while the massed bands swaggered up & down, turned themselves inside out. Trooping the Color actually is a guard mount at which the "King's Color," a gold-embroidered flag presented to the Guards regiments by the Monarch, is paraded before the troops...
...woods near Bagnoles-de-1'Orne, French gendarmes stumbled last week on two dead Italians whose throats had been slashed, whose bodies were riddled with bullets. Investigation had scarcely begun when inspectors of the Sûreté Nationale (Scotland Yard) suddenly stepped in and took charge of the case. For the dead men were no mere murdered tourists but the famed exiled Italian anti-Fascist Brothers Carlo & Nello Roselli. For years in Paris they have published Giustizia e Libertá, organ of fugitive Italian liberals. To the Sûreté their killing had all the earmarks...
...commoner wife, the former Mme Jana Lucia Deletj. Present at the dinner were Queen Mother Marie, Prince Nicholas, Crown Prince Mihai. When Carol proposed a toast to his own red-haired commoner friend, Magda Lupescu, 15-year-old Crown Prince Mihai dropped his champagne glass on the floor. Carol took a running kick at him. Nicholas intervened. A gun, supposedly Nicholas', went off. Queen Marie got a bullet in her middle, began to vomit blood...
...right side of his face hung slack as a bloodhound's jowls. Anna, his wife, "was frantic." He went to bed at once. Neurologists tickled him with electric currents, and an orthopedist stripped his face in a brace. This supported his facial muscles until the nerves recovered and took charge of muscular tone. After three and a half weeks Dr. Fishbein recovered with no residual grimace...