Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some heroes court the danger even more daringly. Antonio Montes, who was killed in 1907, let the bull come to him for the coup de grace. Captain Canedo, who is still alive, kills a! rejon ?that is, he rides first as a picador, then dismounts and finishes his job as an espada. And there is Gaona, of Mexico,* who fights without a muleta, relying solely upon the suppleness of his hips to elude the bull's furious charge. It is Gaona's boast that the horns seldom miss him by so much as the breadth of a finger...
...that a certain Prof. Cavenaghi had discovered that Leonardo Da Vinci's famed Last Supper was crumbling away. The immortal paint was drying from the canvas. Cavenaghi restored it. Recently another Professor, one Silvestri, noticed while dusting the picture that many parts untouched by Cavenaghi were in like danger of drying, of crumbling. He set himself to perform what Cavenaghi had overlooked. For many weeks, while visitors came, stared, departed, he delicately dabbed and rubbed, last week successfully completed his restoration...
...when a luncheon was given at Claridge's by Mrs. William Randolph Hearst. Said the Post: "What wonderful things luncheons at fashionable restaurants are!" Mrs. Hearst was referred to as the wife of "the great American newspaper magnate who attacked England so bitterly at the time of England's danger. ... It might be thought that no Englishman would ever desire to have anything to do with him again...
...unchristian a spirit could never survive such a luncheon; and besides, now that the danger is over, Hearst is almost friendly once more. We may be certain that no thought of the injuries and insults poured upon their country by the Hearst press interfered with the refined enjoyments of that exquisite meal...
...large exports of gold recently made from New York in a single day ran to $12,000,000. It has been taken by some as marking the end of the danger of "gold inflation" in America. The exports of American gold were mainly occasioned by large foreign loans recently floated in this country. J. P. Morgan & Co., for example, in one day sent $5,000,000 in gold coin to the German Reichsbank, on account of the $110,000,000 German loan sold here this fall. This single gold shipment exceeds all exports of gold to Germany from New York...