Word: descents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private nursing home at Rome last week meningitis brought Death to a prince unique in the quarrelsome and stingy house of Caetani which traces its descent with certainty for eleven centuries and boasts among its collateral ancestors two Popes, Gelasius II (1118-19) and Boniface VIII...
...brought their own soldiers. The soldiers brought plenty of ammunition for their own rifles. It was that kind of a Balkan funeral, grand and grim. Perhaps never until last week had all Europe escorted to his tomb with so much pomp and precaution a monarch only four generations in descent from a swineherd...
Many a German gangster is called Dutch. Example: ''Dutch'' Schultz. The Pennsylvania "Dutch" are of German, not Netherland descent. In the rumbling language of the Netherlands (Nederlandsch taal) there is no such word as "Dutch." But it has taken Adolf Hitler to make "Dutch" an issue among phlegmatic Netherlanders...
...moral is slight. However, if and when the chosen few who edit the Guide Book see fit to revise it, it is strongly urged that they include hammer and chisel as essentials on any blind date. Venturing further, the day may come when a mass descent upon Radcliffe and Wellesley (with weapons) will remove this orthodontical veneer that has covered the female searcher after knowledge since time immemorial, and, oh happy day, render the feminine campus a joy forever. Arma virumque cano...
According to the Observatory's figures the angle of the meteor's descent to earth was about 30 degrees. The actual size of the disturbance was probably about 500 feet across. A more exact description of the position of the flight follows: the position at the start was approximately 67 degrees 40' West, 63 degrees 21' North; when it exploded, the position was approximately 67 degrees 15' West, 42 degrees 28' North...