Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Henry VI who founded Eton in 1440. It is because King George III is dead that Eton keeps to its melancholy mourning garb of black suit and shiny topper. All but 29 Etonians must throughout the year observe a number of strict rules: they must leave unbuttoned the bottom waistcoat button, (and in after life they usually continue to do so). They must walk, with coat collar turned up, on only one side of the town streets. They may not carry an umbrella rolled up. The 29 leaders of the schools, the "Pops," however, are permitted proudly to exhibit...
...over a mine field located by the Zeppelin, and return him to his command. On occasion a suspected merchantman would be halted by a Zeppelin, boarded by an officer. If contraband were found, the steamer's crew was ordered to its small boats and the steamer bombed to the bottom by the Zeppelin. That practice was abandoned, however, because of the danger of destruction by incendiary bullets from the steamer. Wholly unrelated to a dirigible save by its bullet shape, airplane motor and propeller drive is a so-called "rail Zeppelin" which made its maiden trip over a commercial route...
...footnote referred to at the bottom of this column containing the above article, appears this note...
...five newspapers in Washington none is great. None, perused by a man from Mars, would suggest itself to him as a journal of the Capital of a powerful nation. All are, to a degree, the provincial organs of ;he District of Columbia. And nearer the bottom of the scale of merit than the top is the Post, of which Oswald Garrison Villard once said: "Its chief claim to fame is that Sousa named an excellent march after...
Marie's few servant friends did what they could for her; now & then a man helped her after blackmailing her into submission; but there was nothing but a little time between her and the bottom of the hill. Her baby was born at a charity hospital and lived long enough to break her heart by dying. At the end Marie found the Seine more comfortable than the boulevards...