Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bowl together. They charge furiously. First they rip off each other's ruby-red ventral fins which look like a sailboat's centreboard. Next to go is the red top fin which looks like a reversed mainsail. Frequently they bite off chunks of side meat, draw blood...
...know more than they will tell." Egypt is not of interest except to a few devoted amateurs. Her thoughts have remained inaccessible, incommunicable to the herd (as are our own). . . . He who has never pursued the key to the secret of life, be it only in dreams, will never draw near the real Egypt." In one of her last entries, Traveler Bibesco's European wit reasserts itself: "Since I have left Egypt, I keep rubbing my eyes and wonder why I see badly, or if I am going blind. It is her light that I miss. I must have...
...Congressional overriding of his veto of the Spanish War pension bill, the President declared: "I favored a liberalization of the Spanish War veterans pensions, but I have not changed my opinion that it should have been worked out in such a way that men having substantial incomes should not draw pensions from the Government . . . [also] I do not believe it is right to change our national policy to pay disability allowances to men who may destroy their health by vicious habits...
Socialism as well as Christianity is a Ludendorff bête noir. In reporting his "sermon" the great Berlin Socialist daily Vorwarts headlined: "Perfectly Silly!," declared it scandalous that a Missionary of Wodan is allowed to draw a general's pension from the Republic's Treasury...
...Germans. There was also a love story which ended when the girl got drunk and plunged into the arms of another man, also drunk. Ben Lyon, as the timid brother, acted best. Discounting its less efficient elements the picture still stands as an astounding achievement. The air sequences will draw gasps from the most stolid patron. In the early reels a duel (German) is most adroitly handled. Scenes on board a Zeppelin raiding London are tense with grim reality. The destruction of this Zeppelin has rarely been rivalled in the whole history of motion picture thrills. Best shot: the Zeppelin...