Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reception for a visiting U. S. track team and made another speech. In a corner sat a newshawk for the Swedish sports journal Idrottsbladet, taking down his words. What the reporter thought he heard the Minister say made headlines next day in Idrottsbladet. It was: "Be on your watch. The Swedes are a jealous nation and do not like to see foreign sportsmen triumph. Maribel Vinson [champion U. S. woman figure-skater from 1928 to 1934] was unfairly marked down by the judges, for a Swedish competitor to get a better placing." Actually, as Idrottsbladet scathingly pointed out, international judges...
...bullets. With rumors crackling that the Vice Chancellor himself had been killed correspondents rushed to his home where he was said to be in "protective custody." S. S. Storm Troops guarded the house but Reichswehr soldiers, sent by President von Hindenburg to guard his favorite statesman, stood watch inside. Two days later Lieut.-Colonel von Papen offered to resign. General Göring was expected to take his post if Hitler accepted the resignation...
...Clifton H. Seaver of Springfield, Mass., wearing dirty white linen knickerbockers, a No. 13 on his sweater, to represent his age: a gold wrist watch, a vacation trip, a bicycle; for beating Sidney Diez of Baton Rouge, 7 games out of 10, in the final of the U. S. marbles championship, with 200,000 entrants: at Ocean City...
...course of The Thin Man. A retired detective, in Manhattan for a holiday with his charming wife (Myrna Loy), he finds himself drawn by circumstance into trying to solve the sudden disappearance of an eccentric inventor, whose mistress has been found murdered. When the inventor's watch-chain is discovered in the dead woman's hand, when the only possible witness to the crime is found murdered also, a dull-witted police operator (Pat Pendleton) surmises that the inventor committed both crimes. While gayly consuming enormous quantities of whiskey and gin, Nick Charles chats with the inventor...
...January, Treasury assay & mint offices at New York, Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, New Orleans and Seattle have been doing a bargain-counter business with the general public. People who paid $20.67 an oz. for the gold in their false teeth, loving cups, medals, belt buckles, mesh bags, spoons and watch chains have been cashing in this scrap to make a 75% profit. Last week the Treasury announced that from Jan. 31 to June 22 receipts of scrap gold at the mints and assay offices had exceeded newly mined gold by $7,714,000. Total value of scrap...