Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outside his door newsgatherers stood ankle-deep in slushy snow, their collars turned against a winter wind zipping up the S Street hill. Moved by pity and mischief, Congressman Black of New York offered in the House a resolution to appropriate $5,000 to build the newsmen a temporary shelter...
...Seeker is an oldtimer, he now gets a handshake. Otherwise No. 1 Secretary listens very briefly to his case and waves him down on a deep leather couch to wait anywhere from five to 50 minutes...
...fall in love with a beautiful girl, but when you are made a spy and sent to Germany you find she is a spy too, but on the other side, and she has to choose between you and her flag, and chooses her flag, as you want her to deep down in your heart, and then you're sentenced and she relents, but she can't change the sentence, and you are standing in front of those rifles-well, you want the news to get there in time. Silliest shot is Lois Moran cauterizing a cut in George...
Banker Morgan. Since the House of Morgan has deep, traditional roots in England, young "Jack" served his ap prenticeship in the city of biggest banks - London. There are no less than five British banks ("The Big Five") bigger than any in the U. S.- Midland Bank, Ltd., Lloyds Bank, Ltd., Barclay's Bank, Ltd., Westminster Bank, Ltd., National Provincial Bank...
...intimate acquaintance with the snow by tripping him up every time one of the attractions of nature he had come to see drew his attention away from a fixed spot about two feet in front of him. Skating was out of the question because the pond was buried so deep in snow his hosts did not even know where to start looking for it, and the afternoon spent on skis made the Vagabond wish he had included a few lectures on his list which would have explained the technique of extricating oneself from an inverted position in a six-foot...