Word: beneath
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Boulevardeurs discussed the news over cafe tables placed beneath the lime-trees of the broad Ujazdowska Aleja. Polish Jews rubbed expectant palms over their newspapers in the tumbledown Stare Miasto quarter. Money was coming to Poland, the headlines told, much money, three hundred millions of dollars...
Viennese cinema goers have surged in for weeks beneath a blazing sign: THE DRAMA OF MAYERLING. Such a title would have been unthinkable in the days when Austria-Hungary was an Empire, would have led to wholesale arrests for lèse-majesté. Even last week, in republican Austria, a young post office official, Ewald Laumann, 23, was driven to the last fringe of emotional hysteria by this curious, true drama of the Habsburgs, the mystery of which is not even yet revealed...
...occasionally an intrepid fly was rewarded with an energetic slap. . . . Occasionallv, too, he shot a glance of stern disapproval across the wharf, where the Courtney children-Martha, four, and Jane, six-romped carelessly. Suddenly, simultaneous shrieks rent the air, mingling with the splash of water. Two struggling figures swept beneath the projecting fishpole. The boy jumped. Seizing one girl by the hair, setting his teeth into the dress of the other, he floated both until help came in the form of a rowboat. When the distracted Courtneys had assured themselves of their daughter's safety, they turned, grateful, then...
...foot shark nosed lazily about, off Santa Catalina Island in the Pacific. It was a bright day. In the pellucid blue beneath him the shark could see scores of rakish fish shapes, deep brown, like his own; silver-edged green, mottled grey, golden bellied; big tuna, amber jacks and yellowtails curving dreamily hither and yon, flashing off now and again for a bite of food. A school of his kind wrangled over a dead porpoise, but the big shark had fed. He lolled contentedly...
Then a commotion on the sea's bright surface caught his eye. Slowly, with cautious curiosity, he circled up that way. It was something ruddy, swimming right on top. That it was no fish could be told from the ribbons and puffs of silver bubbles it made beneath it. It was one of those forked animals from the land, a man. On board the U. S. S. Maryland, gobs spied the shark, saw him swing over to inspect, and follow at no great distance, their buddy, John Radowich of the Pacific battle fleet, who was trying to swim...