Word: threated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...comparable to the practice flights which are part of Italian Air Force routine. But the 1,500-mi. drive through fog and the terrible threat of ice-on-wings, was the most severe hurdle. Then came the "downhill" laps to Shediac, N. B., to Montreal and finally to Chicago. A sad note was injected into the jubilation at Chicago when, at the Italo-American dinner, the toastmaster called the roll of Balbo's crew. Each man in turn arose to applause, answered "Present." At the end of the list the speaker called "Sergeant Ugo Quintavalle." (Sergeant Quintavalle had been...
...that no adult judgment of Japan's conduct can be made until the charges that she bribed the revolting Chinese governments are either substantiated or dispelled. Granting, for the sake of argument, that treaties with an overturned and incomplete government are merely academic in the face of a vital threat to national safety, there is still a certain overzealous arrogance in Japan's foreign policy which even Mr. Kawakami's skill can not explain away. The present book deals also with the structure and problems of the new government of Manchoukuo, and expresses the pious hope that Chinese reorganization will...
...cars they commandeered was occupied by a tipsy driver. He did not seem to mind their taking his car and bottle, but swore that "no damned Irishman can take my hat away from me." A convict named Brady returned the hat. After that there was no further threat to kill the prison officials. "The liquor warmed them up," explained Warden Prather, who not long ago had allowed Underhill to take up a collection for an operation on his sick mother. Near Welch. Okla., the warden and guards were released about midnight. They were given a dollar to "get some eats...
...been studying the agreement carefully there came a sudden telegram. Premier Daladier instantly subsided. Delegate Paul-Boncour's first job was to rush to France's excited allies. Rumania, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland, and assure them that nothing had been signed, that there was no immediate threat to all the land acquired by them through the Versailles Treaty...
...story opens in Paris, October 6, 1908, early in the morning. Actress Germaine Baader is asleep in her bedroom. Schoolmaster Clanricard talks to his pupils about the threat of an European war. Apprentice Wazemmes grinds paint in a Montmartre workshop. Juliette Ezzelin leaves a book to be bound at Quinette's. Few minutes after she has left a murderer bursts into Quinette's shop, asks if he may wash his hands. Clanricard goes to lunch with his old master Sampeyre, Germaine Baader wakes up, Wazemmes goes to the races. Gurau, member of the Chamber of Deputies and Germaine...