Word: ashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rock and lava do not overflow outside the old crater, which was formed by the last eruption of violence, in 1906. History knows of but two truly cataclysmic eruptions of Vesuvius-in 79 A. D. (reported by Historian Pliny); in 1631, when 18,000 lost their lives and ash fell in Constantinople (about 700 miles away). In Bering Sea, a Japanese steamer stood by to behold a long, heavy eruption of Bogoslof, a volcanic island near the eastern end of the Aleutian chain, evidently a continuance of the terrestrial colly wobbles suffered by that region during the past year...
...rain that beat a tattoo on his roof -like drumming hoofs, he thought. King George of England sat staring politely into the same rain from a box at a race track. In a leather chair in Berkeley Square, London, Lord Woolavington (once Sir James Buchanan) regarded the lengthening silver ash of his cigar, and though separated from each other by space and, apparently by opposing interests, the fortunes of these three gentlemen were interwoven inextricably. They, of all the gentlemen of England, were most concerned in the 143rd English Derby, which was at that moment being run at Epsom Downs...
...Elizabeth, Duchess of York, lay thus abed, the Duke, second son to George V., R. I., awaited anxiously the opinion of Sir Henry Simpson, husband of famed actress Lena Ash well, and accoucheur to royalty. Sir Henry Simpson had previously allowed it to become noised about that the Duchess would not be delivered for another fortnight. When he stated last week, that the royal birth was imminent, and that "a certain form of treatment"* had been resorted to after, consultation with other physicians, excitement and anxiety were rife among Britons...
...members of the Freshman class may reach the Arena for the start of the game. Features of the meeting will be the announcement of the vote for class officers, a speech by a Yale alumnus, music by the Gold Coast Orchestra, refreshments, cigarettes and pipe tobacco, and special 1929 ash trays to be furnished by Arthurs...
...ridiculous. This is a Christian land. No religion on earth teaches the brotherhood of man but the Christian religion. No one would think of permitting this. A sect that decrees its girl babies to be thrown into ash cans! Moreover, we put up statues of our saints as reminders. But a statue of Buddha is a shrine to be worshiped...