Word: covered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into sensationalism. Mr. Whipple says that when Mr. Sedgwick and Mr. Bridges took over the fate of the dying Atlantic Monthly they put in new blood and "hung quietly in the skeleton closet the notion that the Atlantic was a sort of spinster literary chaperone and that its buff cover conspicuously enough displayed would protect an unattended female anywhere in the world." The new governors of other magazines have done no less. The scarlet of Harper's may enclose as many and as vitriolic shafts directed against complacency as the verdant boards of the less adroit Mercury...
...Haig I gave the whole French Army for him to command, thus flattering and stimulating him. I flattered Pershing, too. by telling him how his young American army was full of vigor and force and panting to cover itself with glory. To the Belgians I promised English and French troops under the command of King Albert...
...cover displayed a reproduction of the marble "Greek Slave" in the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, which has the air at first glance of being a young woman clad only in police handcuffs. Aside from this bit of salesmanship by sex appeal, however, the contents of Your Body was almost humorously devoid of erotic motif. Ponderous, on cheap paper, its make-up was technically horrible...
...beams of this type. Anent this, Judge Gary said, in the Iron Trade Review: "We are building a mill which will be prepared to manufacture a wide flange beam." Bethlehem President Grace countered: "Bethlehem has an exclusive license under numerous patents which have several years to run, and which cover the process for rolling the so-called broad-flanged sections as a product." It may be that the Judge, always perspicacious, is looking far years ahead. Yet the ingredients of a fight already exist...
...asked to have the record accepted as official, petitioned for a 100-kilometre race in the next Olympic games. Newspapermen sought out Zafiro and San Miguel. "We are strong," they replied, "because we live in the open air. We wear, in daylight, cloths around our privities; at night we cover ourselves with the skins of beasts. We eat, four times a day, frijoles1 and chili with tortillas.2 Also we like deer meat, chickens, turtles, lizards and rabbits. We chew peyote,3 and on feasts we drink pinole.4 No one of our tribe would eat the meat of any creature that...