Word: dis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second act, ending with the shooting is rife with tension which explodes as the play ends in a blare of red fire. For the girl has dis. covered treachery in her fisherman and repays it by exploding a gas drum and nearly blowing him off the lighthouse. Smoke and screams fill the theater. The witnesses seemed to like it. There are several good performances, not the best of which was Blanche Yurka's as the lighthouse keeper...
...astronomer, felt a chill in his side, slipped to the floor. Many hours later, footsteps rang on the stone stairway. The servant who entered found Flammarion where he had fallen. One arm was twisted under his body. His face, scribbled with an extraordinary network of fine lines, was curiously dis- ordered under the bush of his white hair. He was dead. When Camille Flammarion was 9, he saw an eclipse. It was not the spectacle of the little moon lying like a black penny in the huge dead eye of the sun that astounded him; that, he is said...
...Dis-chorus. A tower of Babel type was quickly erected on the editorial pages of the Nation's newspapers. Editoriailzers who had learned to say "Yes," said "Yes" again, flew the eagle proudly over the waters of the earth, pointed the finger of scorn at all who opposed the aggrandizement of U. S. shipping, dubbed them "Little Americans...
...when Royal feet were running and the great soldiers were subject to public execration, Hindenburg stood firm. He placed himself at the disposal of the Provisional Republican Government and led the defeated German Army home to its dis bandment, remaining in active command until July 3, 1919. For this, he earned the gratitude of the Government and the people and the admiration of the Allies...
...earliest days, there was inter-Christian hatred. Theologians dis agreed. An immense influence upon the Catholic Church was the stoical Law of Nature derived from Greek philosophers: "The hostility of that Church to eugenics is ... based on the principle that it is contrary to the Law of Nature to forbid anyone, however diseased physically and morally, to marry and have children...