Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earning capacities which equaled or exceeded Paderewski's. He also notes: "One young pianist of quite recent reputation was paid $12,000 for a week at a movie theatre. Thereupon, Kreisler refused an offer of $15,000 for a similar adventure, not on the ground that it was beneath his artistic dignity, but because the sum was below his weekly earnings in recitals...
...startled babbittry (TIME, Nov. 28). Those who like to read sermons into clay could speak about the "dignity of toil." Sculptor Young had modeled peasants with sad and sensitive faces, a young girl (Spring in Brittany), Porteuse de Pain, and Porteuse de Poissons, figures of women bent beneath burdens, so as to include not a story but the pitying emotion of a fine novel in their strong and individual faces. His prizefighters were less successful...
...Sharon, Pa., Feb. 14.-Entering a crowded room at Mine No. 5 school between Mercer and Grove City, at 2 p.m. today, Mrs. Jack McCall, aged 30, wife of a coal miner, pulled a butcher knife from beneath her long coat and drew it across the throat of her 7-year-old son, Lawrence, severing the boy's jugular vein and causing his death in a few moments...
...rumbling toward Westminster Abbey the battered gun carriage from which was fired the first British gun that boomed upon the continent of Europe at the opening of the World War. Upon that carriage had later lain the body of the British "Unknown Soldier" as it was borne to rest beneath the white Cenotaph in Whitehall. Last week the unique gun carriage bore not the unknown but the best known British soldier. On the flag which draped the coffin lay Earl Haig's sword, unsheathed, and beside it his Field Marshal's baton and massive white plumed...
...flap its wings. Alan Cobham, British aviator in the plane, looked down and started with amazement, for scowling up at him from beneath their heavy orbital ridges were the very dragons of his nursery books. And they were alive-huge, dark monsters nine feet long, who raised themselves on post-like legs to glare at the strange thing in the air. They showed no fear: during a million years all beasts on Komodo had fled from their voracity...