Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welter of sketchy bulletins, counter-claims and unpronounceable names (see col. j) flowing from Poland, the broad outlines of Germany's assault began to take shape. Recapture of what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia (see map, p. 19). It is believed that Adolf Hitler, if allowed to take and keep this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines for the time being. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil or consider himself at war with them, he determined on the complete shattering...
...young man Adolf Hitler tried to get into the Vienna Art Academy, was rejected because his sketches were "below standard." For the rejection he blamed the Jews. Two days after his Reichstag speech he addressed a proclamation to the German people, saying: "It is that Jewish plutocratic and democratic upper crust which . . . hates our new Reich." Then he prepared to leave for the Eastern Front, where his Army and that of Smigly-Rydz, an able if academic landscapist, were locked in a painters...
...intangibles-in smashing a custom, blowing up his own and another's ideology-and as the week wore on it looked as if intangibles delayed him. Why had he stopped? He would have had the advantage of war if he had plunged to seize Danzig, the Polish Corridor, Upper Silesia and the other sections that he said were his, the moment the shock took effect. But he would also have had the guilt of launching...
...loftiest capital of the Americas, sad-eyed, 35-year-old President Lieut. Colonel German Busch gave a birthday party in his home for his Japanese brother-in-law, Kovichi Seito. About 5:30 a.m.. a few minutes after the young Dictator had retired to an upper room, his guests heard a shot. They found German Busch with a bullet hole in his temple. Quick surgery failed to save him. Suicide, escape from nervous exhaustion induced by his labors for Bolivia's welfare, was the official explanation. No one came forward to suggest any darker explanation, but observers looked...
Small Beer, an aptly titled profusely illustrated collection of ten stories and sketches, is authentic Bemelmans brew. From his hotel background (Bemelmans once managed a small swanky restaurant on Manhattan's upper East side) comes the story of Gabriel, the perfect maitre d'hotel, who revealed his true genius at the super-swanky birthday party for Mrs. George Washington Kelly, the story of another maitre whose phobia was The Blue Danube. Among minor classics of travel literature is Bemelmans' account of a small island off the coast of France, where Madame Clamart, because of an unfortunate experience...