Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond sat apart balancing the thin glass on the palm of his hand watching the streamers of smoke weave their changing patterns about the heads of his friends. He had loosed his collar and the green striped tie was bound about his head giving him an air of Attic dignity enhanced by the sweet serenity of countenance that he so often achieved of an evening. He lifted his glass to his right eye and held it there as if it were a telescope, gazing through its opaque bottom with great earnestness, the slow smile of the contented seer disturbing...
...shows the greatest promise among men concentrating in the division. Philippe Dur '35, of Toronto, Canada, was awarded the Barrett Wendell Prize given to the Sophomore who, in the opinion of the Committee had made the most notable progress in the year. Dur's prize consisted of a specially bound edition of the works of Montaigne...
...Villiers calls "the best sailor in the world": Finnish Captain Ruben de Cloux, 48, 35 years in sail, 18 years in the Cape Horn traffic. Captain de Cloux would like to be a sailor on the moon because the moon is smaller than the Earth to sail around. Outward bound for Australia after the 1929 grain race, he was sailing the barque Herzogin Cecilie when she rolled over on her beam ends. He managed to right her and sail on. In the 1932 race he sailed the Parma through Horn hurricanes, South Atlantic ice and North Atlantic calm into Falmouth...
...first rhinoceros ever seen in Europe soon turned to dismay, for the animal was a grunting, intractable terror. From motives now hidden by the centuries, the King of Portugal hit on a solution-he would send the rhino to the Pope. Happily he clapped the brute on a vessel bound for Rome. But en route the rhino, disdainful of King & Pope, provided its own denouement. Running amok, it battered through the hull, sank the ship...
...story opens in Paris, October 6, 1908, early in the morning. Actress Germaine Baader is asleep in her bedroom. Schoolmaster Clanricard talks to his pupils about the threat of an European war. Apprentice Wazemmes grinds paint in a Montmartre workshop. Juliette Ezzelin leaves a book to be bound at Quinette's. Few minutes after she has left a murderer bursts into Quinette's shop, asks if he may wash his hands. Clanricard goes to lunch with his old master Sampeyre, Germaine Baader wakes up, Wazemmes goes to the races. Gurau, member of the Chamber of Deputies and Germaine...