Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rare Sir William Davenant!" are the words inscribed on a stone in the Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey, and beneath these words a date, April 7, 1668. Here lies all that remains of the man who succeeded Ben Jonson as poet-laureate; that is to say all but a few unreadable plays...
...desk in his Manhattan home writing his last great speech in a language that will prickle the flesh of a clammy World Court issue-perhaps he is preparing his autobiography; the story of a man who might have been President; a man with codes on his lips, with courts beneath his snowy crown, with creeds lurking in his steely eyes...
...peasant trundled his cart in from the suburbs of Lyons last week. The cart was heavy. Beneath a load of warm manure nestled 110 pounds of golden 20-franc pieces done up in sacks. Arrived at the Bank of France the peasant, Jacques Brosson, winnowed out his sacks of gold, exchanged them for 730,000 paper francs, hired a taxi, returned home to hoard paper which he believed would soon appreciate...
Meanwhile Sir Alan Cobham had been forced by a faulty spark plug to volplane to earth near Nuneaton. Deftly he skimmed beneath a high tension line carrying 6,000 volts. Then he discovered that he had no wrench with which to repair his motor. Vexed, he walked three miles until he found an autoist who loaned him a suitable wrench. His plane repaired, he sped to Manchester and civic glory. Meanwhile a Manchester crowd, informed by telephone of the contretemps, burst into incredulous laughter, refused for some minutes to believe that the great hero-airman of Britain could have come...
...Harvard students, as they walk prosaically about the Yard, on commonplace gravel walks, realize that unseen individuals like a Beet of moles, are hurrying through subterranean tunnels not more than a yard beneath their feet...