Word: winter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during a police raid. This "remarkable document" outlined the strategy of terrorism and gave specific instructions on how to send bombs by parcel post, clog sewers with quick-drying cement, sabotage machines, and destroy public utilities. The campaign, the "S Plan" indicated, should reach its maximum effectiveness early next winter. M.P.s guffawed when Sir Samuel told of a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament, but they were not amused when he stated: "We have reliable information in our possession that the campaign is being closely watched and actively stimulated by foreign organizations...
...player in the U. S. and can get several tennis fans to agree with him-primarily because his steady, all-round game has defeated almost every top-flight U. S. player (including his fellow-townsman Elwood Cooke four out of five times) in the circuit of southern tournaments last winter...
...yachting trophy for small boats. Norway had won it seven times, Sweden six times, the U. S. four times. Because a U. S. boat had won the series the past three years (and consequently defended the cup in its home waters), U. S. yachtsmen last winter sportingly offered to hold this year's defense in Finnish waters to spare Europeans the expense of sending their boats across the Atlantic for the third year in a row. So, last week the 18th Scandinavian Gold Cup races were held in the Baltic off Helsingfors, and Manhattan Cottonman George Nichols...
...Davis was clad in drawers when he was nabbed by police in Philadelphia last winter in a room he shared with Actress Hope Dare...
...expert who in typical Arlen fashion is also the Comte de Saint-Cloud, tells a tale of high adventure in a style which intermittently suggests Ouida, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, E. Phillips Oppenheim and P. G. Wodehouse. Between fashionable adulteries unrolls the story of Johnnie's employer, Chance Winter, an Englishman with world-wide armament connections which he uses to promote the subversive ends of an international secret organization. Suave and ruthless, Winter eventually meets an appropriate fate...