Word: around
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of Navy or War, Mr. Hoover's good friend Hugh Gibson, now Ambassador to Belgium, who began life in California. Also powerfully pondered were the great ambassadorships. Leading candidate for something good, possibly London: handsome, able Henry Prather Fletcher who escorted the Hoovers to and around and back from South America, and who, like Mr. Gibson, is a distinguished diplomatic career...
...snakes are not venomous, nor killers. Of nonpoisonous ones, the constrictors kill prey by coiling around it and squeezing it to death...
...Renaissance magnificence. One contains the great financier's desk, with a paper weight impossible for a child to lift because it is of pure massy gold. The other room is the library proper, with a huge hearth, on either side of which stand ancient columns of lapis lazuli. Around the library runs an overhanging gallery; and the walls are tiered with volumes more precious than gold itself. The effect is solemn and unostentatious, since where all is priceless nothing can obtrude in garish splendor. Here, last week, John Pierpont Morgan took three minutes to receive and accept the invitation...
Additional revelations of the week concerning the Church-State compromise did not alter its cardinal points: 1) The Government of Italy will designate a considerable plot of land around the Vatican and extending southward down the River Tiber as "The Papal State"; 2) An indemnity of one billion lire ($52,631,600) will be paid by the Italian Treasury to the Papal State, in compensation for lands seized from the Holy See in 1870. It was learned, last week, that Pope Pius originally wanted four billion lire. Concerning the limits of the new State, the Holy Office intimated that...
...noses twitching with annoyance, their legs dragging in bewildered apathy. The guinea pigs dozed or squeaked with fury. The fowl alone presented a pleasing appearance. Their bright plumes flashed and glittered; their stupid, shining eyes were red with pride or excitement as they strutted, with an excess of vigor, around their tiny hutches. The air, dark with smoke, lacking the dusty sweetness of a barnyard, was filled with the shrill, silly clamor of their voices. Roosters, supercharged with masculinity, cried loudly and beat their wings against bars which were barely sufficient to prohibit a shocking orgy and debauch. Hens cooed...