Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, his hospitalizing activities received much unwanted publicity. The Italian hospital ship Helouan caught fire, burned to the water's edge in Naples harbor as tens of thousands lined the quays and wharves to watch the spectacular blaze. Fortnight ago, the Helouan had dumped 650 moppets from Rightist Spain at Genoa, where, cheering "Viva Il Duce -Arriba Espana," they were rushed away to refugee camps. Only a skeleton crew remained aboard the hospital ship tied up in Naples. Hundreds of tourists, including Dennis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia returning from a Papal audience, were prevented from boarding...
...line of foreign warships, prominent among them the elderly Japanese cruiser Idumo, flagship of lynx-eyed Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Japanese commander-in-chief at Shanghai. While newshawks were still discussing their crop of rumors the antiaircraft batteries of the Idumo crashed into action. Somebody looked at a watch. It was exactly...
...Baker's five-year-old Grey hound, who stepped a mile in 1:57¼ in a free-for-all at Springfield, Ill. last year, did only 2:02¼ in winning the 1935 Hambletonian. Two days before last week's Hambletonian, Greyhound raced against the watch at Goshen in 1:58¼, once more failing to break the 1:56¾ world record set in 1922 at Lexington by famed Peter Manning. Now retired at Hanover Shoe Farms for sentimental reasons, 21-year-old Peter Manning is a gelding...
...paid for out of Reichsbanker Schacht's laboriously collected foreign exchange reserves. Aim of the grain requisition is to save for food two million tons of rye and a half-million tons of wheat previously fed to livestock. With Himmler's strong-arm squads on duty to watch for slackers, the farmers shrugged their shoulders, took humorous consolation in the Government's promise to sell them cheap animal fodder at $8 a ton below the market price for rye. and in Völkischer Beobachter's assurance that "the German peasant should be happy and willing...
Only objector to the project was Vice President James S. Cox of Wrigley's, who barked: "They better watch what they do to that sculpture. It cost a lot of money, and they might ruin...