Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinamen, cannibals, and maniacs that make up the wild crew of Captain Ceeley's vessel do not depend entirely upon their make-up to show how wild they are; and Dolores Castello is demurely passionate as the heroine a missionary's daughter, and Ahab's betrothed. In one scene, beneath a tropic moon, John Bar more, aided and abetted by Miss Costello--we mention this merely by the way--utterly puts Mr. Valentino to shame I you have not yet sent in your vote to the film magazines for the greatest lover of 1926, don't overlook John...
Signor Mussolini, well nigh intoxicated by these splendors, climbed a steep and rickety ladder with intent to view in panorama the expanse of Leptis Magna, which slumbered beneath a protective layer of sand from about the Sixth Century until four years ago, when Finance Minister Count Volpi, then Governor of Tripoli, commenced its excavation...
...week, dropping bombs at random, their pilots little suspected that one bomb exploded within 20 feet of Roy Chapman Andrews, discoverer of the first dinosaur eggs known to moderns, chief of the American Museum of Natural History's division of Asiatic exploration. Mr. Andrews had wisely leaped beneath a box car when the airplanes soared into view, and was not among the five persons killed (all Chinese). Emerging from his impromptu shelter, he continued to supervise the loading of the car with scientific paraphernalia for his latest Mongolian expedition. The despatches stated that three other U. S. scientists accompany...
...wind that blew dismayed this crew or troubled their artist minds; they fired salutes beneath Capital's boots, with every expectation of booming gales of applause from "workers." The cover design was a brawny miner with an idea bursting from his skull. Scott Nearing, famed sociologist, just back from a trip to Moscow, Kharkov, Rostov, Tiflis and other centres of culture, limned a deplorable contrast between the mammon-ridden U.S. and progressive Soviet Russia. Robert W. Dunn, young Yale Communist, described with devastating irony the activities of a Massachusetts labor-spy. "Bad Bishop" William Montgomery Brown contributed his revolutionary...
...iron-grey hair was brushed straight up from his broad, handsome forehead, and his iron-grey beard came to a round point beneath a chin well formed and determined...