Word: friends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pallbearers in Mardi Gras skirts of grass, and all the Zulu mourners carrying coconuts. The coconuts would be laid on John Metoyer's bier, that he might fight his way to joy with the heavenly Queen of the Amazon Islands. Mourners hoped that John Metoyer's boyhood friend and Zulu clubmember, famed Zulu Louis ("Satchelmouth") Armstrong, would come down from Manhattan's Harlem with his trumpet to lead the bands in There Never Was and There Never Will Be a King Like...
...your other boy friend witch bothers you so much-see darling your understand, if I want to know this things because you can imagine how much I am interested...
...mysteriously close to the Royal Palace. With him was dark-haired Captain Richard Henry Stevens, well known as the head of the British Secret Service on the Continent. These two were posing as peace mediators. With them was a certain Dutch Army officer named Lieut. Klop, posing as a friend...
Chapter 5: Another Border Incident. George Elser, 36, posing as a master mechanic from Württemberg, walked up to a point 15 yards from the Swiss border, where, when confronted by Nazi guards, he said he was looking for a Swiss friend. He had about his person a perfectly valid passport, but also 15 sketches and maps of munitions depots and factories, as well as statistics of munitions deliveries, parts of gun mechanisms, and a postcard of Bürgerbräu Keller. He said he wanted to send the postcard to his father. He was arrested...
Although situated far away in Northwest Europe, Finland has long been considered a close friend by Americans. It is a strong, clean, upstanding nation; its government is democratic, it has always minded its own business, and held no designs of aggression. Finland is the land of Sibelius, the land where the Olympics were to be held; the land that paid its war debts, and carried on a brisk trade with the United States. Now it is being ruthlessly destroyed. The effect over here on the large body of Scandinavians in the Northwestern States will not be insignificant. Thus far they...