Word: account
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse are a fine body), all joined us in the evening.... All the houses put out lights to prevent surprize, and the Citizens not on duty slept as tranquilly as in the most profound peace. Wonder at what I have seen stops me every instant in giving you the account...
...Benito Mussolini, by Giorgio Pini, a translation of which was recently published in London, allots only three short sentences to Daughter Edda: 1) to report her birth; 2) to tell about her marriage; 3) to describe how happy Donna Rachele was at her marriage. When a complete, unexpurgated account of Mussolini's life is finally written, Daughter Edda may, as one of Europe's most successful intriguers and string-pullers, well de serve chapters instead of sentences...
...academicians' satisfaction that the emperor in question is Vespasian, that perhaps another figure in the marble pageant is Domitian. The Cancelleria discovery, made and handled by reticent Vatican scholars, was for long months kept a secret. This reticence has deprived your readers of the account of one of the most dramatic archeological finds to be made in our time...
Congratulations to TIME on its clear and complete account of the U. S. Visit of the two rulers of a defaulting debtor nation...
Author Saint Exupéry's "new breed" of airmen begins to look like an international fraternity. He does not try to account for the local chapters of bombing pilots...