Word: dayes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purification. Present to assist grave, scandalized King Albert last week were petite intellectual Queen Elizabeth, tousle-headed, schoolboyish Crown Prince Leopold, his svelt, sophisticated wife Crown Princess Astrid,* and his softspoken, softer-eyed sister Princess Marie José (Jan. 8, 1930, was announced last week as the day she will wed Italy's mincing-mannered but courageous Crown Prince Umberto [TIME...
...rekindle the Flame nine torches were ready. They had been lit the day before in the farthest villages of Belgium's nine provinces. War veterans had carried them in "Sacred Relays" to Brussels-no great distance since the remotest edge of the kingdom is only 114 miles away. While the last nine relay runners panted and held their flaming torches high, King Albert laid a huge wreath of purifying chrysanthemums around the polluted orifice. Then with a loud S-s-s-s-s the gas was turned full on. Simultaneously the runners thrust their torches into...
Gunfire commenced early. Mexico's election law provides, apparently in an effort to improve the shooting, that the first nine citizens who succeed in registering at a voting booth are thereby constituted the election board for the day. By noon hundreds of Mexican voting booths were wrecked, most of the others triumphantly occupied by Ortiz Rubistas. In Mexico City an automobileful of machine gunners swept past a mass meeting of disconsolate Vasconcelistas, killed four, wounded eight. In Vera Cruz, Vasconcelistas took their revenge by lynching a man by the name of Lopez...
During the summer and over winter weekends she leaves this apartment in which her staff can account for her actions and whereabouts during each minute of the day and goes to her Connecticut farmhouse, isolated on a bad road branching off other bad roads. Often she drives there speedily, expertly in her blue Studebaker. In Connecticut she turns herself over to her caretaking couple, her gardens, her guitar. There she entertains her closest friends?Elsie Janis, Ethel Barrymore, Clare Eames, Constance Collier, Mrs. Stuart Benson (business manager of the Civic Repertory Theatre), Madame Ouspensky (directrix of the American Laboratory Theatre...
...island of Bali is a day's journey east of Java. Danseuse Page is the first white woman to study and reproduce the dances there...