Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Christian, then 41, took his place with a speech in which sorrow and modesty were stolidly blended. "I hope you will show me the same confidence and respect as you gave him," he said. Educated in Copenhagen's Metropolitanskole, he had served an 18-month term as a private in the army, often standing sentry duty on frosty nights outside the palace of his grandfather, Christian IX, who died in 1906. In 1898, the year in which he became Captain of the Royal Guards, the young giant married Alexandrine, Duchess of Mecklenburg. Christian has always been touchy about...
...week's end, stubborn Anarchists still held many small Barcelona suburbs, but they had lost more than men. Luis Companys reshuffled his Cabinet, reduced the Anarchist membership to one, and took away from the party the important post of Minister of Defense, refilling it with the more moderate Antonio Sese, Socialist, who was then promptly killed by a stray bullet as he was leaving a Cabinet meeting...
...honor of George VI's Coronation, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt took spade in hand, planted two English hawthorns in the Shakespeare Garden of Manhattan's Central Park. Told that a similar spade had once been used to plant a tree there in honor of Edward VIII, the President's mother murmured: "The poor boy. He got into bad hands, didn't he? He was a naughty...
...familiar old houses, painted in the sharp yellow light of a Cape Cod afternoon. Second prize ($1,500) and a silver medal went to Painter-Critic Guy Pène du Bois for a solidly painted young girl, stiffly upright in a chair. Pennsylvania Academy Instructor Francis Speight took the third prize for a farm woman collecting her mail. Critics found little of outstanding importance in the show, but uniformly praised the general excellence of the work. None objected to the judges' choices, found worthy of special mention other paintings by Bernard Keyes, Alexander Brook, Henry McFee, Raphael Soyer...
...airplanes buzzed around it. With the sun glinting on its silver-grey sides and the four huge red swastikas on its fins, it circled once over Manhattan, then headed for its berth at Lakehurst. But a sharp thunderstorm came up and when he reached the Naval reservation, Captain Pruss took no chances, turned off to sea. At dusk, while a drizzle fell from a sombre sky and a fitful breeze jerked the windsock, the Hindenburg once more poked her nose over Lakehurst. began maneuvering to land. It circled twice, then dropped to 500 ft., occasionally spewing water ballast...