Word: without
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finn gets emotional only after much brooding, and usually without much logic. Today he forgets that under Tsars Alexander I, II and III his people were the best-treated minority in the world. Instead, he remembers the blundering misrule of Nicholas II. Even the fact that in 1918 many Red Finns fought hand-in-hand with their Russian comrades against Finnish and Russian Whites cannot change his traditional hatred and contempt for the Slav...
France's President Albert Lebrun and Premier Edouard Daladier went out to the B. E. F. area and lunched His Majesty in a village restaurant. In deference to them he went without his usual midday Scotch & splash, drank wine with the meal (oysters, roast chicken, potatoes, peas, duck pâté, salad, ices, fruit). Another day he lunched in a corporals' mess room, another in a chateau used by Napoleon before, and by Wellington after, Waterloo. The King's comment to an artillery officer was quoted as his cheering verdict to all ranks: "As long...
...Germans, not only can you neither crack nor flank us, but we are now so strong we can move out to meet you in Belgium or The Netherlands or Switzerland, or anywhere else that you may strike-even in the Balkans-and indeed we might move there against you without waiting for you to strike...
...Sonja Henie. But skating fans last week were ready to adopt new ice gods: Wisconsin's piquant Bess Ehrhardt and dashing Roy Shipstad (the "human top"); Adagio Specialists Idi Papez and Karl Zwack of Vienna (onetime European pair champions) ; Brooklyn-born Evelyn Chandler, who turns nine Arabian cartwheels without touching hands to ice; little Harris Legg, who takes a breath-taking leap over a lineup of eleven barrels and as a giant snowman performs the rare stunt of skating on 18-inch stilts; onetime Minnesota Footballer Heinie Brock and his buffoonery; Eddie Shipstad & Oscar Johnson, still cutting...
...England family. "In Gertrude's home in the South it was felt that she might have done better for herself." They were married as soon as they had the price of an automobile, for "in America you'd no more propose to a girl without a car than marry her without a ring...