Word: bores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advanced, gibbering, flinging stones. The marines used their rifle butts as clubs, cracked a few crowns, but gently. For four hours the game of bluff and bruises continued. Once 20 coolies, armed only with sticks, bore a British marine to the ground, tore his rifle from him, plunged the bayonet into his heart. Still no shot was fired. Then, suddenly, a troop of Chinese soldiers from the Nationalist stronghold across the river arrived and dispersed the mob with a few shots. The commander blandly explained to the British that he had been delayed. No fool, the British Consul knew that...
...Huck Anderson. Their mothers gave them such "raising" as they got, which accounts for some of the differences between Tom and Huck now. Tom's mother was a college graduate and he was her firstborn. Huck's was a village girl (fictionized into a beautiful Italienne) who bore seven "brats" and drudged...
Representative Thomas S. Butler of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, father of famed General Smedley D. Butler of the Marines, heeded the demand of Admiral Eberle and took his troubles to President Coolidge. The first conference at the White House bore no immediate fruit. Representative Butler, organized his committee for action, for revolt if necessary...
...simultaneously last October, reached the Collectors' Club, Manhattan, after a haste-post-haste trip in opposite directions around the world. My card, bearing a picture of Governor Smith, arrived first, after a westbound trip to San Francisco, Tokyo, London. The other card, mailed by Hugh Clark, stamp collector, bore a picture of President Coolidge, and arrived four hours later in Manhattan, after an eastbound trip to London, Tokyo, San Francisco...
...Neighborhood Players (TIME, Dec. 28, 1925) this play based upon an old Jewish legend quickly won fame and riches. The "dybbuk" is the spirit of a departed youth. It takes its strange abode in the heart of a Jewess, keeping alive in her perturbed breast the love she bore the spirit when it possessed a body of its own. Priestly folk would exorcise the disturber in the interests of sensible matrimony to a wealthy wooer. But with shrieks and groans the ghostly lover wages a sturdy, though mystical, battle for the lady and romance. With this material the Neighborhood Players...