Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respectful officers round him knew that the General, about to become a Marshal, would never enter it as an Italian commander. Then the old man, leaving his Chief of Staff, General Melchiade Gabba, in command, drove through cheering lines of blackshirted Italian workmen along the roads they had just built, toward the coast and Italy...
...Suez Canal today is a great convenience to the world's shipping but before it was built in 1859, Britain's great Lord Palmerston saw it as a potential menace to the British Empire. On the open seas Britain was supreme. The Suez Canal meant a shortcut waterway from Gibraltar to the Gulf of Aden* requiring, if Britain was to control it, immensely involved politics. It meant that Britain, if she could not block the building of the Suez Canal, must at least partly own and control it and must by hook or crook dominate Egypt, then...
...Ricardo a job in the opera company and further his amour with Rosa. To U. S. audiences which once split their sides at the Marxes, but now find them dullish, it will be good news that the brothers have some new routines. 1) Shipboard routine: Hysteria is built up by putting four people and a trunk in a cabin intended for one person .and suitcase, then bringing in stewards, manicurists, telephone repairmen, et al. 2) Landing routine: The stowaways, minus passports, cut the beards from three sleeping notables, glue them on, enjoy a public welcome until voiceless Harpo, called...
...order most to enjoy the collection it is necessary to know something about Harry Elkins Widener, the man responsible for it all. From schooldays a great collector of rare editions of all kinds, Widener, when here, began to interest himself in Robert Louis Stevenson. After having built up a fine collection, he was able in later years to round it out with priceless treasures secured from a George M. Williamson. Especially did Widener love to possess volumes that had been cherished by the authors themselves, volumes with personal dedications to the authors' friends and patrons. Because of this love...
Beloved Hooks Burr, then captain of the eleven, was the prime factor in bringing about Haughton's appointment. The present Varsity Club was built in memory of Burr by his family and friends...