Word: bantams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeared flustered. Tiny in stature and nervous, the bleak King contrasts as strangely with his tall, debonaire, swashbuckling son as with the burly, curt Dictator. If, as seemed probable, one of them advised, "You should kiss the Pope's toe," and the other thundered. "Your Majesty must not!" the bantam monarch must have been in an awkward quandary. For on Dec. 5 next?it was announced last week?King Vittorio Emanuele III will pay his first visit to the Vatican. The toe must be faced...
...Santiago, Chile, there was no celebration-naturally. But in Lima, Peru, fireworks popped, cheering citizens snake-danced. Regiments smartly parading with blaring bands were reviewed by small, snapping-eyed President Augusto B. Leguia, indomitable dictator, famed "Bantam Roosevelt...
...under President Coolidge, and topped off in the first few months of the Hoover regime, resulted in the present 50-50 compromise of giving Tacna back to Peru. Last week in Lima, maids and matrons deliriously dancing on "Joy Day" brought a crown of solid gold laurel leaves to bantam President Leguia, ecstatically crowned him "The Hero of Tacna's Delivery...
Shortly after noon Germany time, 55 hours after she left Lakehurst, the Graf Zeppelin landed. A multitudinous crowd on the ground, fences, poles, roofs and steeples screamed joyously. Passengers debarked quickly. Count Albrecht Montgelas carried a fat bundle. It contained 52 ears of golden bantam corn, bon voyage gift of Mrs. William Crapo Durant. He fed them to his comrades that evening...
...solitary heart went out most unreservedly and with the most pathetic devotion toward fragile chickens; and out of these uninteresting little birds he elicited a degree of responsive intelligence which was starting to see. One of his dearest friends, coming home from a journey, brought him a couple of bantam eggs...