Word: tat
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...after rich Jew, staying behind to protect their German properties as best they might, occurred a paradoxical but sound idea. Why not contribute to the "Brown Shirt" party fund? Then, in case fiery Herr Hitler should try another coup d'état (like that which he and General von Ludendorü failed to carry through in 1923) surely Jewish contributors would not find Fascist "thunder squads" crashing in their doors. Last week swaggering Hitlerites boasted scornfully of having been offered such "Jew-cash," would not admit to taking...
...bill King Fuad refused to sign would have prevented a repetition of the 1928 coup d'état, when the puppet monarch dissolved Parliament and ruled with a puppet government headed by Mohamed Mahmud Pasha (TIME, July 30, 1928). Defied, wrathful Nahas Pasha replied to his sovereign by resigning and then- against all precedent-marched back into Parliament and, although no longer Prime Minister, asked and received a tempestuous vote of confidence...
...seances in specially-constructed laboratories. At one of these seances, "ectoplasm" from the medium takes independent shape, absorbs Mr. Parham, announces itself as the Lord Paramount, savior-dictator of England. Sir Bussy and his skeptical companions acknowledge the dictator, do his bidding. There is a coup d'état, Parliament is closed, England put under martial law. The Lord Paramount wants a war and gets it, but it is more than he bargained for. In a desperate attempt to seize the privately-controlled laboratory where the world's most powerful poison gas is stored, the Lord Paramount...
...said. 'Here's your rat. A little the worse for wear, this sat is, I'm afraid, sir. A gentleman happened to step on it. You can't step on a nat,' he said, sententiously, 'not without hurting it. That tat...