Word: bled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week when a non-union worker attempted to move into one of these shanties, strikers blocked his way. County Sheriff Oscar Adkins and his deputies rushed the strikers. Stones flew. Pates were cracked. Noses bled. Sheriff Adkins swore out 148 warrants for "riot, insurrection and rebellion against the constituted authority of the State of North Carolina." After 74 strikers and their leaders had been arrested, the county jail was filled. More troopers came to town. Minor dynamitings occurred in the mills. A Labor Day parade was banned by the county commissioners and the mill owners moved to evict...
...only thing that cheered me up about the whole dreadful sight was a splendid brave mother swan who beat and beat with her wings at one of the men until his nose bled. Ordinarily I am made ill by such a sight, but I held onto myself and gave almost a cheer for that swan...
...Godfather and represent the British Royal Family at the christening. He went when Crown Prince Peter was christened, he went again when Prince Tomislav was christened (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). But last week when Queen Marie's third son was about to be christened at Castle Bled, the Duke of York, though invited, stayed at home, delegated his second cousin, onetime Queen Elizabeth of Greece, to be chief sponsor in his place...
Obediently, Elizabeth sped to Bled. In the presence of her mother, Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, her sister Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, Prime Minister Zhivkovitch of Jugoslavia and members of the Royal Family, she took a lighted candle in one hand, the royal babe in the other, and walked around the sacramental table in the castle chapel while Patriarch Dimitrea of the Jugoslav Orthodox Church named the little prince Andreja (Andrew...
Born. To King Alexander & Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, a son (third), provisionally named Paul by the Archbishop of Ljubljana; at Castle Bled, Slovenia...