Word: around
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solemnly playing backgammon, last week, in the warm sitting room of a small house at Louveciennes. Several correspondents hovered irritably around the placid players, not quite daring to interrupt. From the bottom of profane hearts they cursed Old Dr. Turner for the maddening deliberation of his moves. Why didn't he lose, or win? A pox on backgammon! They wanted to interview the other venerable player, the grizzled yet roly-poly one, the man with the shrewd smiling eyes, the Marshal of France, Joseph Joffre, 76, famed hero of the Battle of the Marne...
Papa Benito bounced in turn upon a large white horse. Prancing and bouncing, and cheered by loud Fascist "Ala-ala-ala-las!" the Prime Minister and his Big-Eyed Babe rode once around Ancient Rome, out the Appian Way a piece, back...
...second of three maps visualizing the progress of President-Elect Herbert Hoover around South America appears this week in TIME. The Hoover Odyssey is chronicled in National Affairs. Lands mapped pass in brief review...
...Here in the South we are overpopulated but in the Northwest are great spaces where one may travel for days and hardly meet a fellow traveler. There are wide stretches of fertile land around Ninghsia which were densely populated in the days of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-221 A.D.), which are now desolate. But in various sections of this area one may find foreigners entrenched-little, independent kingdoms with their own police, schools, hospitals and wide roads of their own construction...
While despatches went round the world telling of the pleurisy which had prostrated the King of England, one of his humblest Subjects, Prizefighter Tom Heeney, was informed by a Manhattan physician that he had been walking around for a week with a case of pneumonia...