Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effective in these maneuvers). As Kidwell disappeared around the bend they resighted their gun to point at the woods across the road. The trouble would probably come from there. It did, within two minutes, heralded by the splintering crash of fences, the shrieking whine of green trees torn apart...
...Palmyra, Aleppo. The two columns coming from the northeast were parallel and 100-odd miles apart. The lower column, motorized, was to strike at Palmyra's airport, continue to Horns, which is an important highway junction with a 50,000 population. Then the column was to take over the end of the oil pipe-line at Tripoli...
...masterpiece of contempt. He glances back at it contemptuous, angry. . . . Suddenly, as though his face were not giving quite complete expression to his feelings, he throws his whole body into harmony with his mood. He swiftly snaps his hands on his hips, arches his shoulders, plants his feet wide apart. It is a magnificent gesture of defiance, of burning contempt...
...will bear the name of our tribe, and be right proud of it. You will be as we are, but far greater than we. Your life is all wandering, change, and adventure. One soul in two bodies in life or death, never long apart. Show this to the man you take for your husband...
...apparently committed suicide while on naval duty in the Mediterranean. Partly to quiet gossip, Eaton married the "Gorgeous Hussy" in 1829. When President Andrew Jackson appointed Eaton Secretary of War, the furor of Washington society over Eaton's wife was such that the President's Cabinet fell apart. Later Eaton became Governor of Florida and Minister to Spain. After his death Peggy married an Italian dancing master who stole her money and eloped with her granddaughter. Her old age was desolate. In the 1936 motion picture, The Gorgeous Hussy, Peggy's part was played by Joan Crawford...