Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...source of deep regret that I am unable to be present at the great community musical festival which has been arranged by the Inman Square Business Men's association," President Conant said. "I am very glad that the meeting is being held in the Harvard Stadium and that it is possible for the University to offer its facilities for this gathering. The occasion is significant not only for the ends to which it is dedicated but also because of the fact that it is a community enterprise which brings together a great group of citizens in a musical festival...
Author Stribling writes so simply that he seems guileless. His own cryptic opinions are buried deep in the characters of his people. Only occasionally does he let his irony be seen: a cynical businessman defines the decision of a jury as "just an idle opinion expressed by twelve negligible onlookers"; when a bankrupt unsuccessfully pleads that the bank should not strip him to the buff, "the Colonel was amazed that anyone should compare the most conventional of American businesses with a gambling house...
...armies of Peru's Incas marched again & again during the 15th Century deep down into the narrow strip of coast that was even then called Chile, to conquer the proud Araucanian Indians. Pizarro's men took the job over, passed it on to generations of Spanish soldiers who tramped in, left behind broods of half-breeds, tramped out again. When Chile broke away from Spain in 1817, she went on trying to conquer the Araucanian in his southern provinces of Malleco and Cautin. Not until 1882 when some of the Araucanians who called themselves Mapuches turned against their...
Irving Berlin is proud of having set a record in the theatre's lean time, proud of having written a fast, popular show at 46, when most songwriters' careers are over. But deep in his heart he has a warmer feeling for the first Music Box Revue ("Say It With Music"). And never has he been so proud as when in 1910 he was able to buy his mother a hard shiny set of parlor furniture with the royalties from "My Wife's Gone to the Country" and "Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon...
Atop an unfinished Miami hotel, Shirley Brewer breathed deep of the clear night air, smiled down at the spread-out city, caroled up to the far-off stars, tripped, toppled off the roof. But Death was not ready for him. Fifteen stories up, a narrow ledge broke his fall, saved his life, left him with a leg jammed in a masonry hole. For six days and nights he struggled to tear his leg free, screamed, stared up at the sky through wind, rain, sun, mist. Then, as a workman discovered him, Death was ready for Shirley Brewer...