Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next was a splendid moot point for naval historians. Loyalists say one of their air bombs plopped straight down the Espana's funnel. Rebels insist that the Espana struck a floating mine. In any case, up she blew and in 45 minutes sank by the stern to the bottom of the Bay of Biscay. Of her crew, normally 854 officers and men, no were rescued by the Velasco. Fishing boats searched the area for hours, found not a body or a survivor but other things: several German newspapers, the captain's cap, an officer's jacket...
...lung that he had to quit for the season, later announced his permanent retirement. He continued to live at matador pace, scattering money like crumbs to many a hungry bird. His mistress, Marilena, was Ricardo's greatest expense and biggest trouble. When she saw there was a bottom to his purse she used all her Central American wiles to get him back into the arena. Ricardo's nerve was gone, so was his stamina; he hated the idea of fighting any more bulls. But finally he gave in, signed a contract for two fights. The first...
...didn't see a single damn Rebel warship or a single mine. I'll go anywhere merchant ships can go as long as I've got a sturdy British bottom like the Seven Seas Spray, a good crew and my daughter Fifi. . . . She has no intention of marrying, but prefers to remain with me. She doesn't know what fear is, and during our trip from Saint-Jean-de-Luz she was right there on the bridge, wearing trousers...
...program in a faltering and unconvincing manner "Melody for Two" which stars the golden voiced James Melton, turns out to be as unsatisfactory as the feature picture. With Patricia Ellis as his running mate, Melton sings and swings his way from the top of the heap to the bottom and all the way back again...
...plus sign, a rectangle, a band of three wavy lines-and there are five cards of each design in the pack. For clairvoyance, the pack is thoroughly shuffled, laid face down on a table, and the subject is required to call them off in order from top to bottom. In telepathy, he is required to guess the card visualized in the mind of an agent. Since at every step there is a choice of one among five, the subject should make an average of five hits in a run of 25, if nothing but luck or chance entered the situation...