Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince Ibrahim of Egypt and retinue of five, near Montélimar. Death spared all, but bruises raised big spots of black & blue. Tout Paris was inclined to mock at Ibrahim,-at Cocobo, -even at "little girls" all ruefully bruised and tender. Ere nightfall, however, Tout Paris caught breath over a third accident...
...meeting to arrange a merger between Royal Dutch Shell Oil and Standard Oil of New Jersey. And, for good measure, even the Anglo-Persian company might be included in the breath-taking consolidation...
Translated, the motto means: "Strongly blow the winds of freedom." It is itself an authentic breath from the pre-Bismarckian Germany, which loved beer and learning and the hearth and which was not at all imperialist...
...orators' mouths The fine, clean-shaved, Websterian congressmen, Come out to see the gladiator's show. But from a high place, as befits the wise, You will not see the long windrows of men Strewn like dead pears before the Henry House Or the stonewall of Jackson breathe its parched Devouring breath upon the failing charge. . . . The Significance. "What America needs is a good five cent cigar"-and not till now has it had an adequate story or poem of the Civil War (aside from Walt Whitman's Lincoln). Yet, the Civil War surpasses in colorful drama...
...like the breath of mythical and playful goddesses, goes to the heads of worldlings. It gives them an inexplicable grandeur, a constant vibration between excitement and ease, a strange language. Take, for example, the events at Santander, Spain, on the Bay of Biscay during the last three weeks. King Alfonso XIII went there to join his queen and children. Yachts and warships speckled the harbor. There were receptions in the Magdalena Palace, dances in the clubs, frolicking townsfolk and tourists everywhere. U. S. Ambassador Ogden H. Hammond came down from Madrid. There was a short yacht race; the Queen trounced...