Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Niceto Alcala Zamora had no connection last week with either Spanish Rightists or Spanish Leftists, except that the latter have his two sons. "The Government of Valencia has thus pointed a contraband dagger at my heart by taking from me hostages beyond all price," wrote Alcala Zamora in the Journal de Geneve. "An aching heart has steeled itself by a supreme effort to recover the fullness of its liberty, the liberty of the pen and the liberty of action-action faithful to my convictions as a patriotic Republican...
...minutes after sunrise, a lowering cloud appeared on the horizon, grew bigger and bigger until it all but blotted out the Mission sunlight, making the air loud with the beat of thousands of narrow wings. Suddenly, while the rest flew on to the canyons beyond, a great segment of the swallow cloud broke off, swooped down on the Mission. Then began Capistrano's annual battle of birds as the swallows fought to drive interloping swifts and sparrows from their last year's nests. Meantime cameras whirred, radio announcers chattered and Dona Magdalena Murillo, 89, triumphantly croaked her tale...
...otherwise his wife would get nothing. But weeks before the date he had to go to the hospital; he was dying. Though the doctors all said he had no business to be still alive, old Fiala hung on, by main strength and will power managed to last several days beyond his release date...
...several months more she was in bed moving her hands and feet aimlessly, often whining and crying like a very young child and the only articulation one could understand was her frequent calling for 'Mamma, Mamma,' although her mother had passed to the 'great beyond' some thirty years before. The patient would take a towel or any cloth, roll it up and hug it to her as if it were a rag doll. She now required liquid nourishment because she would not chew, and soon she had to be fed liquids with a spoon, taking them...
...character portrayal. Major Daviot, Captain Bradford, Mrs. Bradford, Lord Pontefract and some of the other important characters are well-delineated. This much is to be expected, for Mary Borden and her husband, Brigadier-General E. L. Spears, move in circles similar to those she describes, with officers living beyond their means and trying to counter-balance the everyday boredom of peacetime military existence by gambling for high stakes and similar diversions...