Word: breast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting with Martha was a blessing to him [Washington]. He was none of your intellectuals himself, no bookworm. He had gone through years of loneliness in rain and snow, in horror, bloodshed and defeat. He needed above all things a plump little widow to take him to her soft breast and give him repose and the luxury of a home. If he could not give her the passionate ardor of his first love, neither could she give him hers...
...stamps, with all the special issues for Jeddah and Nejd -these and many more sent their best. But one and all, when they beheld a black and magenta stamp lying by itself in a case ten times too big for it, bowed in reverence. This stamp bears upon its breast in bold letters the words "One Cent." Its owner, Arthur Hind, of Utica, paid $32,500 for it. It is the most valuable stamp in the world. Should some one find, on an old letter, a big stamp with an octagon marked within its four corners, and a square inside...
...meets the "doctor- lawyer-journalist-soldier -states-man," William Walker, the original "manifest destiny" man, who believes that "America must round her territories by the sea," that he must help her by becoming the Napoleon of Nicaragua. Peter drinks deep of destiny, joins him. On the squalid, turbulent breast of Central America, they achieve momentary success. There is all the usual panoply of historical romance: the storming of ancient citadels, the intrigue of Bourbon-breath'd henchmen, the moneyed powers, the lovely Senorita de Avila who dies heroically so that Peter may live. Filibuster Walker, as some may recall...
Council Sits. At the first session of this "1926 Council," Foreign Minister Doktor Gustav Stresemann appeared, pink and portly, as the first representative of Germany, to sit at the Council table. Reaching into his breast pocket he pulled out a long white cigar holder, clipped a fat Havana, and settled back behind a peaceful smoke wreath. As a matter of courtesy and alphabetical precedence the chairmanship of the Council was offered to the Representative of Germany (Allemagne). Beaming, Dr. Stresemann declined the honor on the ground that he does not speak French, the language in which the Council is ordinarily...
...National Illiteracy Crusade proceeded. Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, its director, was active in Montana, establishing "moonlight schools" similar to those she introduced in Kentucky, on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation, near Browning. Classes were begun in the Owen Heavy Breast school and in the home of one John Bull Shoe. Commonwealth College, founded three years ago by Laborites in a virgin dip of the Ozarks, near Mena, Ark., swung into action with two characteristic announcements: 1) Tuition, food, books, lodging and laundry came to $100 for the year, not including soap, tooth paste and pencils; and, "the school body dresses plainly...