Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reds. French Communists were content during the Paris excitement to demonstrate passively at Clichy, Soviet-infested suburb of Paris. But one midnight, as a trainload of legionaries rumbled along between Cannes and Nice, a considerable section of railroad track suddenly leaped and twisted upwards in the dark, wrenched out of...
More has probably been said this fall about the quarterback situation at Harvard than about any other feature of the University's gridiron prospect. And everywhere the story has been told with the same pessimistic shrug, the same forecast of impending disaster. For Harvard, be it known, has no quarter...
Steven's "Memoirs" is shown in manuscript form, as well as in a special private edition printed by Harry Elkins Widener. Of forty such volumes printed, only a few beside this one remain, the others having gone down with the Titanic, in the same disaster which costs Widener his life...
¶At the Hotel Royal Danieli, Mayor Walker attended a formal luncheon given in his honor by Count Orsi, Podesta of Venice. Having finished what he termed "the best luncheon I have ever drunk," the Mayor spoke to the guests. He reminded them that in New York there are Italian...
Outside on the flying field a woman was kneeling. Over her the Most Rev. Francis Mostyn, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff, was praying, asking a blessing. On the ship he sprinkled holy water. Soon rose the motor roar which drowns goodbys on flying fields. The St. Raphael moved, gained speed...