Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smiling hugely, gigantic, handsome King Christian boarded his yacht, set sail through the channels and islands of his kingdom for the port of Fredericia in Jutland last week. Bitterly cold for May, it was snowing hard, but that could not chill His Majesty's verve. He was about to...
Saito prides himself on his U. S. ways, his "Americanese" ("made," he jokes, "in Japan"). In Washington he has staffed his Delano & Aldrich, neo-Georgian Embassy with what he believes are the closest Oriental approximations of U. S. "good fellows." His corps of 18 (the British have 15) is more...
At Columbia University he founded the first student flying club, took the first Master of Arts degree ever given in Aeronautics (1910). He joined the Wright Brothers, became their general manager. In 1914 the U. S. Army Signal Corps made him its Chief Aeronautical Engineer. First thing he did was...
Post-War nations which have seared each other with the hottest hate are Lithuania and Poland. Reason: a swashbuckling corps of Polish officers seized Vilna in 1920 and Poland still holds that city, whereas the Constitution of Lithuania opened then and still opens with the sentence: "The capital of Lithuania...
Top-booted footmen sprang up behind, the coachman cracked his whip, and out through Grosvenor Gate the coach rolled, to smack into collision with a lumbering scarlet omnibus. With one horse streaming blood, the coach careened wildly up Park Lane at a dead run. White-faced but resolute, Sir George...