Word: awaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning, and the anniversary of the marriage of the present King and Queen of Italy in 1896. Gendarmes in khaki overcoats, their steel trench helmets painted white, formed a guard of honor. Cinema operators, sound and silent, stood by their tripods, then threw away their cigarets as a gleaming Minerva, private automobile of King Albert of Belgium, drew up at the curb...
...mort! A mort! Death! Death!" screamed excited Belgians, ripe for a lynching. Soldiers with fixed bayonets hustled the would-be assassin away. Prince Umberto, without turning round continued the ceremony, laid a laurel wreath bound with the arms of Savoy on the Unknown Soldier's grave, then insisted on reviewing the guard of honor...
...Albany. "I was unable to escape the fear of fire in the hotel on my first night away from home in five years. I persuaded Tom Caughlan to stay up playing pinochle with me until five o'clock in the morning, when we took turns at sleep for an hour or so up to breakfast time. ... In my first three terms in the assembly I knew nothing about lobbying, or anything els? that was going on, for that matter. . . . The newspapers often referred to Al Smith's Gang during my years in the legislature. That meant...
...away from Columbus, Ohio, hovered about racetracks, sold papers, learned how to bum. Then he was converted, went to a seminary in Northfield, Mass. Prepared for the ministry, he was on his way to Philadelphia when he saw the Great Herrmann, master magician, and followed him to Syracuse. He joined a roadshow, a circus, organized a show of his own, toured the country, toured the world, joined Kellar as junior partner, succeeded him. Now he is 60, successful, reminiscent...
...Lured away by the prospect of seeing an epic gridiron struggle and by a desire to find out what the Yale team looks like under fire, Time Out took a journey to New Haven on Saturday. The epic struggle was there alright and Yale with littler Albie Both in the Starring role looked pretty fine under fire; so the trip was a success...