Word: caveness
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...Grew, a young Boston-Groton-Harvard-man, crawled into a cave in China and shot a tiger just four feet in front of him. This feat so impressed Theodore Roosevelt that, although he was leary of Boston snobbery in the diplomatic service, he appointed Joe Grew clerk to the consul general in Cairo...
Peter the Athonite came first to Mount Athos in the 9th Century and lived there for 50 years, battling devils and beasts in a cave high above Homer's wine-dark sea. Then came Euthemius and Joseph, who sought eternal bliss by moving about on their hands and knees eating grass. All this was centuries after Xerxes' legions invaded Greece, and, of course, centuries before Nazi Panzer divisions...
Billy Mitchell wrote: "We must relegate armies and navies to a glass case in a dusty museum, which contains samples of the dinosaur, the mammoth and the cave bear...
...season's biggest gold mines were Let's Face It! and Sons o' Fun; its worst cave-in, The Lady Comes Across (a $200,000 musicalamity). Only producers to have had more than one hit were the Shuberts, but Gilbert Miller headed the mourners' bench with three flops. Movie money in general was tight, even though The Moon Is Down (because of its success as a book) went to 20th Century-Fox for a record $300,000, Let's Face It! to Paramount...
...lady's request, one day, Bernadette swallowed some of the damp cave mud (and vomited); the mud became an abundant spring. That spring, according to scientific analysis, is pure drinking water; but in it, a few days later, a paralytic baby in the spasms of death was immersed, recovered, and lived to see Bernadette sainted 75 years later in the greatest 20th-century feast of the Roman Church...