Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolution. Not long after the publisher found he had made the mistake of his life. The upstart Sartip had got himself appointed Minister of War and the publisher was exiled to Baghdad. Two years passed while brooding Riza Khan intrigued, cajoled and bribed among the military, forcing his deep plans and domineering power to triumph over weaker minds. While still only War Minister he reorganized the Army and made it his own by insuring regular pay for the first time in living Persian memory. To do this he had to detach a section of the Ministry of Finance and incorporate...
...declaring a moratorium bespeaks an energy which Gilbert never possessed!" For his part Dr. Schacht, who works, eats and sleeps at the Reichsbank, had an elaborate thesis of accusation which he read out in the Reichsbank Central Com mittee Chamber, directly under his bed room. Drawing a deep breath for the cataract of words he was about to utter, Dr. Schacht cried: "Now that our colonies which were attaining before the War to increasing importance as sources of raw materials have been taken away in a fashion that practically excludes Germany as an exporter to these colonies, now that...
...family, and you, Seniors, black reed wolves with your so called sheep's clothing, being sheep in wolf's clothing as you are. For the past few months our time has been occupied by composing the Class Poem, Oration and Ode. While these trifling effluvia of course required no deep concentration or constructive thought, yet we found that there was a certain fascination in this game of clothing Mother Goose rhymes with flowing garments of Miltonian or Homeric majesty. Especially were we pleased with our results in the case of the Ode, the original of which we chanced upon...
Bugles hushed 5.000 persons assembled in the hills near Ashland, Ky. last Sunday afternoon. Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon bade them all a deep, drawling welcome. His wife uncovered a bronze tablet. And a rude little log cabin was officially christened "Traipsin" Woman...
Descent into Hell is the subtitle of his Prelude. In 54 close-packed pages Author Mann justifies his caption, presents the prehistorical theory on which his narrative is founded. "Very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?" Not truth but mystery lies at the bottom of the well. Recorded history goes down only a little way. "Where then do they lie in time, the beginnings of human civilization? How old is it? . . . We have only to enquire, to conjure up a whole vista of time-coulisses opening out infinitely, as in mockery." But there...