Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former German colony's 30,000 white inhabitants are still German. For two years the Deutsche Bund, a Nazi organization, has marched and drilled there, boycotted Jewish and British traders, set up secret courts and a veritable state-within-a-state. Last week the Dominion of South Africa took notice, issued decrees...
...companion and adviser of the King. His Majesty feels that his "sacrifice" in not marrying his Mrs. Simpson No. 1 is one which leaves all Rumania under a debt of gratitude to the Throne. In holding this opinion King Carol glosses over or forgets that in his youth he took a morganatic wife, Mme Zizi Lambrino, put her aside to marry Princess Helen of Greece and Rumania, who is the mother of Rumanian Crown Prince Mihai, and not only was divorced but actually abdicated as Crown Prince prior to his triumphal restoration as King (TIME, June 16, 1930). This behavior...
...used as rest periods. "Used the same pair of skates the entire trip. Used 480 steel wheels in all. Used 960 cones on both pairs of skates. Used eight rubber cushions on both pairs of skates. . . ." Skaters Skelly & Shefuga drank only milk and water, daily ate five meals and took two baths. Their trip cost $1,400. For brakes they used canes which were four inches shorter when they arrived than when they started. On smooth level roads they went as fast as 20 m.p.h. Their highest speed: 40 m.p.h. down Torrey Pine Hill, near San Diego...
...control room, with the 200 supers and actors standing by to go on the air, Bang! opened the Armory door and Whooash! entered two five-ton Army trucks. The trucks were soon quieted and the excitement they caused passed. But the excitement caused by the show that took place during the next 30 minutes will not soon be forgotten by persons who take a serious interest in U. S. drama. For Poet MacLeish seems to have solved at one crack two long-troublesome theatrical problems: what to do about verse plays and what to do with the radio...
Died. Slipper, 2, vivacious sandy Cairn terrier sent by the Duke of Windsor last month to Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson; of a viper bite; in a veterinary hospital in Tours, France. Mrs. Simpson telephoned the Duke the bad news, canceled the day's engagements. Besides Slipper the Duke took with him when he abdicated Cairn terriers Cora (10), John (8), Jaggers...