Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the French General Staff most fears is a successful policy of peace by Adolf Hitler for the next few years, until Germany is strong enough to fight and win. Last week Chancellor Hitler flung down the velvet gauntlet of Peace in a significant interview with Comte Fernand de Brinon of Paris' Le Matin...
...raised her head as though she has just recalled that another of George's huge hose is hanging by the fire and needs mending. Mary Todd Lincoln, who loved style as much as her homely husband detested it, enjoys an elegant moment of respite in her pansy velvet gown, serene in the knowledge that her exquisite little fan and parasol would be the envy of many a prairie lady back home in Illinois. Lucretia Garfield stands resolutely erect, prepared for tragedy. Edith Carow Roosevelt placidly reads her book. Only the faintest notes of discord jar the harmony among...
Louis Lepine, "King of the Paris streets," is dead. For eighteen years this suave, dapper little man ruled the greatest of continental cities as Prefect of Police, tamed the apaches, and with velvet-gloved truncheon put down each uprising of a notoriously restless populace. It was the quiet, tense efficiency of his regime which inspired the novels of Gaborlau, the mystery of Stevenson's "Suicide Club," and the dashing career of Arsene Lupin...
Each ticket is priced at 100 francs ($3.92 gold, $6 Roosevelt), thus making the total lottery stake one billion francs. If all this were velvet M. Bonnet could wipe out one-sixth of the deficit at one stroke. Instead 60% of the lottery proceeds must flow back to the public in prizes, 10% will pay expenses, only 30% going to M. Bonnet's Treasury to help pay French War veterans' pensions...
Some 350,000 people, including 100,000 over Labor Day weekend, visited the State Park in Watkins Glen, N. Y. to gape across a deep, narrow gorge at the buck deer with horns in velvet which, presumably chased by dogs and injured on the flank, had become marooned on a rocky ledge (TIME, Sept. 4 & 11). No end of elaborate wiles and artifices, including stuffed deer, an Indian chief, a plank bridge, were brought into play to lure the animal from its prison, all to no avail. Park employes feared that, if frightened, the buck might plunge over the brink...