Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steeply banked audiences in Buenos Aires' permanent single-ring circus by sticking pins through his cheeks and arms. Invariably he climaxed his performance by shuddering, screaming, and going into a trance. Uniformed attendants lifted the rigid Blackamon into a specially prepared glass-faced coffin, buried him eight feet deep in the sandy floor of the circus ring. For three hours he would remain there while clowns tumbled and horses cantered above him to be exhumed alive and smiling at the end of the evening...
Lest the thoughtless imagine he were leaving the church for business, devout Dr. Wunder explained why he called his new occupation a "ministry". Said he: "The members of the firm are Christian men of high ideals and deep religious convictions. They believe, as I do, that they are feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick as literally as Christ commanded His followers to do. They consider themselves to be engaged in religious work...
...library in two decades is far from easy, especially when it is dependent to a large extent on selecting it from the flood of contemporary material. To those men who have been connected with this work during the library's life both Harvard University and American business owe a deep debt of gratitude...
...Maeterlinck, 67, Belgian poet, explained to the Revue Beige why he has lived in France most of his life: "If I had remained in Belgium, I should have become a 'miserable macrobite' among the small bourgeois who surrounded me. Belgium professed, at the time when I lived there, a deep hatred of letters. Men who had talent found themselves up against things unless they gave up their art. It was only toward 1880 that things began to change...
Last week 3,000 armed men were massed on a plain near Port Clinton, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. All were picked shots. Over their shoulders were slung rifles with well-oiled firing chambers, speckless bores. The walnut stocks were worn, rubbed to an oily, deep brown. Across their backs were stretched bandoleers full of sharp-nosed cartridges. Thousands of rounds of ammunition lay in neat cases around them. To bivouac the force, peaked, tan canvas service tents were thrown up along orderly streets. To many of the riflemen tenting was new. No novelty...