Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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this was a good deal more than most British or French editors cared to swallow and their tart comments made Adolf Hitler angrier still, as the Government of His Britannic Majesty learned with grave concern. King George VI was so worried that harassed Anthony Eden was kept reporting constantly in person at Buckingham Palace...
...supine posture compels him to drink and swallow in time with the pump and to manage his epiglottis so that nothing but air is sucked into his lungs. Otherwise, he would certainly develop pneumonia and die. To reduce the danger of germs getting into his lungs, his two Chinese nurses wear gauze over their mouths and noses when they brush his teeth, shave him, wipe his nose, or deal otherwise with his head...
Keep in mind, Sirs that we will see more and more of this kind of propaganda. The Bolshevik know that they must destroy Fascism or Fascism destroy Bolshevism; England never forgive or forgot the humiliation inflicted to her by Italy at the time of Ethiopian War and never swallow the bitter pill of lost the control of the Mediterranean Sea, Hitler talk too often of the return of the German colonies, so John Bull do his best to discredit these two countries, so in case she prepare a war against them, she will have an alibi and blame Hitler...
...little Premier Koki Hirota four months ago and installed a "gold braid" Cabinet of generals and admirals, swashbuckling new Premier General Senjuro Hayashi has been twirling his handlebar mustaches menacingly at Japan's civilian Diet. The Diet's Minseito (majority) and Seiyukai (minority) parties were induced to swallow the largest budget in impoverished Japan's history, $802,400,000, of which more than one-half is earmarked for the Army & Navy. Last month Swashbuckler Hayashi's mustaches stiffened when the Diet finally turned stubborn, let it be known it would not pass one of Hayashi...
...Like a swallow chasing flies, he flitted through the sky, a trail of flour tracing his arabesques against the blue. Finally, only 1,000 ft. above the field, he pulled the ripcord of his parachute. It failed to open...