Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corps of Cadets having been designated as an Escort of Honor by the Governor of Virginia. If this is correct, General Early died something over four years before Generals Wheeler and Lee received their commissions as Major-Generals of Volunteers, U.S.A. General Early evidently had the gift of prophecy along with his many other admirable qualities...
...Along with these positive achievements, the Conference gave to many admirable balls pushes and pats to set them rolling. For example, when Haiti proposed that "A Circle of American Friendship" be established, the Conference told Panama to establish it. If Panama has the gumption, Panama can spend years making arrangements for "eminent Americans" of all 21 countries to meet in Panama from time to time to be friendly...
...bars and ballrooms of Baltimore. Mrs. Wallis Simpson's home town, amazed citizens of high & low degree gaped last fortnight at what appeared to be the title page of a book which any Baltimorean would pay high to read. Title: ALONG THE RIVIERA, A True and Thrilling Love Story, by Edward Cornwall. An archaic-looking woodcut showed a British sea captain relaxing under a palm tree with a Tahitian belle, while another seaman peered off a cliff through a spyglass. Heading: "George VI Looking Over His Vast Empire WITH MR. SIMPSON AT SEA And the Prime Minister Turning...
When eager Baltimoreans showed up at No. 14 East Hamilton Street for their copies of Along the Riviera, they found that no such publishing firm existed, soon learned that the book was no chronique scandaleuse of Baltimore's most famed ex-resident, but only a figment in the mind of an eccentric printer. With his small press it is Louis MacKenzie Turner's hobby to set up and print the title pages of imaginary books, which he then distributes as a genial hoax around Baltimore...
...family into a passing wagonload of corpses, he carts them to safety, only to have Renée and Armand killed by a chance shell far behind the lines. Pierre goes as crazy as the rest of his family, babbling that he is a deserter while his daughter tags along after him unrecognized...