Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Oxford undergraduates, celebrating their first crew race victory over Cambridge in 14 years, rampaged through London's show district, invading theatres in some of which they climbed on the stage and "took over the show." Rightly suspecting that the young gentlemen would want to finish up by stealing the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus, police had it swiftly boarded up and a hollow square of burly Bobbies easily withstood charge after tipsy Oxonian charge. Old Oxonian A. P. Herbert, famed Punch funster and Member of Parliament, attended the fray for hours, ready according to his wisecracks...
...Rothschilds would like him to pay some rent for their castle in Austria (TIME. March 29), moved out. Journeying to a former pension or boarding house on the shore of Lake St. Wolfgang, where Edward of Wales and Mrs. Simpson stayed happily for a time in 1935, the Duke took up residence. He was obsequiously conducted from car to boarding house by officials of the British diplomatic service, one of whom held an umbrella over His Royal Highness, for brilliant sunshine had changed to a driving blizzard...
...Kleber, today Commander of the International Column, the tough soldiers of fortune from many lands who first put the backbone of trained soldiering into the defense of Madrid (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.}. Writes News Chronicle's Cox: "General Kleber is by birth an Austrian. His family took him to Toronto when he was still a child, and he became a naturalized British citizen, which he remains to this day. He fought in the Great War. In 1919 he went to Siberia with the Canadian Army of Intervention, to serve against the Bolsheviks...
Pius XI is presumably aware that, in considering the state of the Catholic Church in Mexico and Spain, not only liberal Protestants but many liberal Catholics are disinclined to blame it all on the "Reds." Last month the Catholic World, published by the Paulist Fathers, took a different line from most of the U. S. Catholic press regarding Spain: "Was the religion of the people of Madrid so superficial and their intelligence so benighted that a half-hundred aliens from the North could come down with a few pocketfuls of rubles and a supply of Marxian pamphlets and win over...
French, who had been drinking, entered without knocking, muttered some unintelligible words and fired point blank at McCracken. He then went to a neighbor's house where he surrendered to Night Jailer George Kelly who took him to jail. To Deputy Sheriff C. R. Serper at the jail he said, "I have stood all the insults to my family I can stand," would say nothing more. McCracken was rushed to the hospital where his wife collapsed, recovered and aided the surgeons. She stood by until McCracken died two hours later...