Word: blanke
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...spoor led the investigators across the Atlantic, where, they said, more agents had received over 1,000 blank immigration permits for distribution in Warsaw, Hamburg, Genoa and Paris. These sold from $145 to $2,000. All told, one Deputy charged, the ring's total receipts had reached $50,000,000 for 15,000 Jews admitted to Bolivia...
...curdle the late night air above pent and country houses. Aldous Huxleyans and Evelyn Waughans smile from time to time with irony and pity, but their eyelids are a little weary. Confirmed Wodehousians hoot, holler, writhe, snort, bellow, nicker, and in culminating transports, belch. Asked why, they may look blank, indignant. Anton Chekhov once said that the best description of the sea he had ever read was written by a Russian schoolboy: "The sea is vast." Wodehousians explain the master's illimitable spell just as simply: He is funny...
...fighter pilot, but not the first airman, to get a Victoria Cross in World War II. The first four British airmen who won V. C.s were bomber crewmen: Acting Flight Lieut. Roderick A. Learoyd (attacking a special objective on the Dortmund-Ems canal in the face of heavy point-blank fire); Sergeant Thomas Gray and Flying Officer Donald Edward Garland ("most conspicuous bravery" in wrecking the Albert Canal bridge); Sergeant John Hannah (extinguishing a roaring blaze in a bomber instead of bailing...
...Buffalo Negro car washer sidled a stranger, asked him point-blank if he wanted $231. Said the Negro: "I'm on the legit, boss. I ain't looking for no racket." Nevertheless he was lured to the downtown office of the National Depository of America. The U. S., explained the Depository, has $30,000,000,000 in idle, i.e. "decirculated," currency. It also has 130,000,000 people. This works out to $231 for each of them. To get yours, all you have to do is pay $1 a month to the National Depository of America. For this...
...Dies then raided German and Italian organizations in Chicago, seized files and records. Next day Mr. Dies charged that Chicago Nazis had sent Hitler $13,000. He hinted loudly: "We have found something that is completely incriminating." A "Mrs. Blank," he said, "a nationally prominent Chicago society woman," was to be questioned...