Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reich, last week celebrated his 50th birthday. The representatives of conquered nations paid him humble homage. The envoys of fearful satellites rendered respectful tribute. Albert Forster, Nazi No. 1 of the Free City of Danzig, presented a document which made the Fuhrer an honorary citizen of a town he may soon appropriate. Special delegations from Germany's allies were received in special audience...
Taken aback, Orator Mussolini cleared his throat, changed the subject and went on, but the heart had gone out of the act. The speech over, the Blackshirts, innocent of their error and still warm with the thought of comforts to come, hurried out and treated the town to a mass souse such as Rome has not seen since the days of Caligula...
...evening of October 16, the treaty was signed while church bells rang and a crowd clamored outside the town hall. It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon. Mussolini took a special train from Rome to Milan, drove a racing car from Milan to Stresa, a speedboat from Stresa to Locarno. Briand, always in bed by nine if possible, was asleep two hours after the signing. But he was stirred: "It is ended," he said later, "that long war between us. Ended those long veils of mourning for the pains that will never be assuaged. Away with...
...laymen are likely to be unduly influenced by styles in clothing, hair and beards. He prints a picture of Neanderthal Man as he might look with a haircut, clean shave and modern clothes (see cut, p. 51), showing that he might get by today on the tough side of town without attracting attention as an oddity...
...Maid and the Thief, was a farcical satire on feminine foibles. Its plot: a very pleasant, honest tramp so ingratiates himself with an old maid and her maidservant that they make him a permanent guest, even stealing liquor from a neighboring store (the heroine, a member of the town's temperance league, can't buy it publicly) to keep him contented. News that a notorious criminal, of similar description, has just escaped from a neighboring jail disturbs the old maid somewhat, but she reflects that "it is better to be killed by a man than to live without...