Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clique of politico-militarists who ousted Dictator Pangalos got together, last week, another Cabinet. It is the old one of Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis, re-formed to exclude Alexander Papanastasiou-which means nothing. The Cabinet has merely been reshuffled to allay strife over whether certain projected roads shall be built in Greece by Samkros Bros., Ltd. of London or by Fox Bros. of Berlin. Presumably Fox Bros. have lost, since their proponent was the ousted M. Papanastasiou...
Soon the fake was detected. The stories were all so insistent upon the name of Mlle. Roseray's stamping ground, upon the name of her partner, upon the tremendous reputation she had built up for herself, upon her beauty, upon the loss to the theatrical world which would have been the result of her decease, that astute editors became suspicious. The next day some of them printed stories about how the fake had been effected, not forgetting to stress the foxlike guile of Mlle. Roseray's press-agent who had fooled all the clever reporters. The witty, wisecracking...
...zones of U. S. defense-Hawaii and Panama. As the result of her Allied building program during the War, the U. S. has plenty of destroyers, though these are aging.† But the U. S. quite lacks destroyer leaders-big, beamy head-ships for the destroyer squadrons (18 strong), built heavier and steadier for observation purposes and so that they can keep up with the main fleet at top speed in dirty weather. The proposed aircraft carriers are limited by the Washington Treaty of 1922 to a maximum of 27,000 tons each, a minimum...
...some charming alchemy in nature, those places are often the most lovely where men have most suffered. George Washington marched his men to Valley Forge, now a vast well-kept park, along roads that were rutted with ice. The tents went up along the hilltop and the soldiers built their fires in the dark. Night after night the wind blew down like a white wolf, blew the snow up over the small starry fires and howled at Washington's army from a cold, tremendous sky. Soldiers have been brave before and since; Washington's men heard the wind...
...HAUNTED HOUSE?Hilaire Belloc, illustrations by G. K. Chesterton ?Harpers ($2.50). Rackham, also known as Rackham Catchings, was a nice house for a murder. Part of it was built in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Various stucco wings added to its ugliness through the ages. Among other things, it contained "many a bad watercolour by ladies of the place, living and dead; a few portraits in the drawing-room, one of which, almost black, was reputed to be a Gainsborough." Rackham had come into the possession of Mrs. Hilda Maple, a widow with a business head. She filled...