Word: daylights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes of hundreds, or climbed a miraculous rope until they were lost to sight. Skeptical listeners, psychic researchers, men of science have scoffed at these marvels, called them a romantic variety of mass hypnotism. Last week armchair theorists got a shock when a set of photographs taken in broad daylight by two hard-headed Britishers reached the U. S. The pictures show a white-robed Indian Yogi reclining several feet above the ground in a sculpturesque attitude of repose. Except for his long-nailed right hand cupped over the top of a cloth-draped pole, there apparently was nothing...
...night last week on the island of Hawaii, a Territorial Forester named Leslie W. Bryan had a vivid dream. In it he saw a dirty, ragged, wretched soldier at a certain lonely spot on the slopes of Mauna Loa. Before daylight Forester Bryan was on his way to that spot. He knew that for a week an alarm had been out for Private Edward Deal, missing from an Army rest camp. Sure enough, at the spot he had seen in his dream, Forester Bryan found dirty, ragged, wretched Private Deal, saved his life...
...want to clear up this matter Of Marshal Badoglio's steed. Was it bright as the daylight or duller? Some dangerous doubts have been thrown On this animal's actual color, And the truth should be known. . . . There is growing unrest in the nation, The facts should at once be released: I demand a precise explanation Of the tint of Badoglio's beast: Was it mustard perhaps-out of pity For the traces of poisonous gas? Or did he ride into the city On a mule-or an ass? Marshal Badoglio rode into the Ethiopian capital...
...story of 1836 was the revolt of Texas against Mexico. Tale of the Alamo made tragic news in the U. S. in early March. "The battle was desperate until daylight," reported the New Orleans True American, "when only seven men belonging to the Texan garrison were found alive, who cried for quarter, but were told that there was none for them. They then continued fighting until the whole were butchered. . . . We regret to say that Colonel David Crockett was among the number slain...
...private rights or security. The jackal or the hyena that invades a cemetery to fatten its own body by digging up the dead does not believe in the sanctity of the tomb. . . . Let [the Nye committee] come out of the cemeteries and catacombs and get out in the daylight...