Word: amazone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then she plunged entirely into Labor affairs. Attached to the Federation of Labor, yet claimed by the Socialists, full of sweetness in times of labor peace, a very Amazon in action, she has had a part in nearly every important strike in the last ten years...
...very Amazon in action...
John Zimmer, of the Field Museum, Chicago, brought home from the Amazon Valley a rare nocturnal bird called by the natives " alma perdida," or lost soul, owing to its unearthly shriek. It is mottled gray and resembles the whippoorwill...
...made their tombs in the Southern cemetery," says Dr. Reisner, "we found to our great surprise a Greek rhyton of red-figured ware signed with the name of the known Athenian potter, Sotades, who lived about 450 B. C. This was borne on the back of an Amazon mounted on a horse, all beautifully modeled. Whether this masterpiece of the Athenian potter reached Meroe by trade or as a gift brought back by some Meroitic ambassador to Egypt must remain uncertain for the present, but in any case it proves intercourse with the Greeks and an appreciation of Greek craftsmanship...
...costumes, which are always half the exhibition when Mlle. Sorel appears, were not only more tasteful and beautiful, but had more reason for their existence than those worn on the previous evening. Her death scene was overdone, and played with the voice and might of a reproachful Amazon, rather than the delicacy and weakness of a person dying from consumption...