Word: curse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will you kindly inform your readers how many millions of dogs there are in the U. S.? Also make a suggestion as to the saving that could be effected during this depression by dispensing with a certain percentage of worthless and vicious curs? Why should dogs dispute for food with...
With two companions Leon Trotsky put out in a motorboat from Prinkipo. his island exile home near Istanbul, for a fishing trip. In the Sea of Marmora a squall wrecked the boat on rocky Dog Island, where thousands of Constantinople curs used to be sent to starve. Another fishing party...
Ismael Husseyin stood on that scaffold with the rest of the condemned. While hangmen twisted ropes round his colleagues' necks he suddenly leaped away, fled through the streets followed by whizzing bullets, a dozen yapping curs, and most of Menemen's many men.
The camera's versatility in angles and colors is neglected, but the pictures tell in quiet and graphic prose about the little fishing villages flattened on the edge of the Red Sea; pelicans floating like foam-patches in the nervous water; skinny brown fishermen bringing in their shallow boats, piled...