Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...another: Churchill sitting in a wheelchair in Manhattan, bandages on his nose and forehead, after an automobile nearly ended his life on Fifth Avenue in 1931; Hitler barking Sieg, Sieg, in antiphony with the full-throated Heils of massed Germans; the odd and sinister British-Nazi faction of Sir Oswald Mosley goose-stepping in Hyde Park; the garden walls hand-built by Churchill during his enforced retirement at Chartwell; later shots of Winston Churchill walking the deck of a British battleship, wearing bow tie and bowler and carrying a cane. First Lord of the Admiralty once more, after the message...
...Germans got a leader to their taste. He points out that the industrialists assumed the debt of the Nazi Party, that most Protestant pastors swore a personal oath of allegiance to Hitler, that the average man hardly seemed to notice the loss of his liberties, and quotes Philosopher Oswald Spengler's comment after Hitler's takeover: "It is no victory, for the enemies were lacking...
...Died. Oswald Veblen, 80, leading U.S. geometrician and nephew of Economist Thorstein Veblen, member of the Princeton University faculty from 1905 until 1932, when he joined the new Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he was instrumental in selecting the famed research center's original mathematics staff, which included Albert Einstein and John von Neumann; of a heart attack; in Brooklin...
...next one emerges from her tweeds with a less sympathetic expression. Diana married one of Britain's mighty brewers -Bryan Guinness, stout feller-but got divorced and married English Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley...
...Lenz, 86, who started work at 16 as a $2-a-week paper salesman, retired at 31 as the millionaire owner of a paper company, devoted much of his life thereafter to playing and experting at bridge; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. In 1931, after he and Partner Oswald Jacoby were challenged ($10,000 to $1,000) by Upstart Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson and Wife Josephine to a 150-rubber match billed as "The Bridge Battle of the Century," Lenz fell into eclipse when the Culbertsons, promoting their new honor-trick system, talked and slammed their...