Word: password
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marx Dormoy had double details of steel-helmeted, rifle-equipped Gardes Mobiles posted at the entrances to key Cabinet ministries, including his own. Their orders: "After 9 p. m. shoot to kill anyone who, after being challenged twice, attempts to enter without showing his special pass or giving the password." Under these elaborate precautions nobody was shot...
Most people are afraid of a "dripping Wet'' candidate, not that "Prohibition that does not prohibit" is desirable but history indicates that "dripping Wet officials" and all kinds of graft and immorality go hand in hand and in their Mutual Admiration Society, "reciprocity" is their password and their slogan is "An aye for an aye and a toot for a toot...
Internationalism, since the war, has become an intellectual password, often-times of little meaning. There has been a great deal of romantic speculation about world brotherhood with lack of discrimination on the part of the individual in practical details. As a result foreign travel and education have developed rapidly, but frequently blindly...
Three Faces East (Warner). "Three Faces East" is the password of German spies operating in England, who answer when they hear it "Forward and Back." At the root of it all is the master spy, Erich Von Stroheim, whose allegiance to his Vaterland is not adulterated when the King of the Belgians decorates him for valor. The story is highly theatrical but, in view of what is known of the actualities of international espionage during the War, not excessively romanticized. It is good entertainment, smoothly built and wonderfully acted by Von Stroheim and Constance Bennett who make it convincing...
...Last week at Ivy Hall, home of William Grimsley Wood near Culpepper, Va., assembled 35 Confederate veterans for a reunion. They had no club, no ritual, but mint juleps in frosted silver mugs were served them generously. The password: "Where's Brandy Station?" Alexander Fontaine Rose, 84, of Mosby's Brigade, did some spirited dancing. Oldest veteran: John L. Poe, 92, 49th Virginia Cavalry. Honor guest: Mrs. Eliza ("Mother") Crim, famed Confederate nurse at the Battle of Newmarket...