Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what, good purpose can a cow That brings no calf or milk be bent...
...necessary. Did he wear bracelets? For reply he held up his wrist, and the golden bands tinkled their momentary music. Sentiment, he said, had sealed their clasps. He would never take them off. "Here, in tender reverie," wrote the star cor- respondent of a moving picture magazine, "Mr. Valentino bent his head. . . ." Discussing the editorial, the head was erect, the reverie was not tender...
...keep his face clean. . . . This is not publicity. He overstepped all bounds of decency and right thinking. I will go back to Chicago and give him what he deserves. Only one thing can prevent it-he may be feeble, or old, or too young. . . ." Once more the head was bent. "I am waiting," said Mr. Valentino...
Monk shook his head. Grave with a hidden purpose, he bent and whispered something. There was a tight cluster of wooled heads; every one was in the secret save toddling little Nathan, too young to comprehend...
...Then, whoopIng, he led his followers back to the yard. In 15 minutes Mrs. Ellison came in and laid her clean clothes down on a chair. What she saw on the floor gave her a slight start, but her nerves were good; she chuckled and moved nearer. As she bent over the "corpse" uncertainty replaced the laughter in her generous face; her hand, moving very slowly, pushed back the dress that covered the breast of her youngest. The gash left by the woodpile ax was deep and scarlet. It had long since ceased to bleed. "Whee. . . ." A delighted shriek drifted...