Word: ble
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Added General Asensio as he sat with the other Militia officers in arm chairs placed in the street behind a barricade of sandbags: "We of the Government are taking great care to keep losses as low as possi- ble. They are now desperate men in the Alcázar fighting for their lives without food, water, or sleep-they'll have to surrender shortly...
...first thing I knew about the trou ble," said Keeper Bjork afterward, "was when I heard Ed swear-and then I looked over that way. Wally had him on the ground with his left front foot on him and was trumpeting and stamping. He stamped and kicked at Ed and then dug his one tusk deep into Ed's body and jerked his head upward-ripping and slashing. He didn't lift Ed off the ground, but just gored him with a vicious ripping motion...
...sang of love in the spring to a tenor in white flannels. The scene was interrupted by a spying eunuch whose voice cracked occasionally. The lover hid in a chest. The Pasha, who wore a dinner jacket and a crimson fez, appeared and sang "There is no ta-a-ble, is there?" The wife replied: "There is none." The Pasha said: "I had for-go-o-tten. We'd no need of one, not having dined here lately...
...cattle-thief and revolutionist who, in 1916. eluded with humiliating ease a $130,000,000 expedition under General Pershing sent to punish him for killing U. S. men and women in raids on town-. These doings and his private life was irresponsible a is might appear to make him ble as the hero of a U. S. cinema epic. Such is not the case. Viva Villa, with adroit omissions and exaggerations, makes Mexico's most famed outlaw an estimable child of nature, noble if crude, an illiterate amalgamation of Don Quixote, Dillinger and Napoleon, wrhose more serious misdemeanors, like...
...wealth on a half-million dollar estate at Glen Cove, L. I. Having been for a time personal attorney to Oil man Harry Sinclair, he became the head of Oklahoma oil interests valued at $70,000,000, helped organize Middle States Oil Corp., gambled in oil stocks. His bub ble broke when Middle States went into receivership. The courts investigated, dis covered that the firm's books had been shipped to Paris. Oklahoma's Haskell saw his Long Island estate auctioned off, went back west to recoup his fortunes...