Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward of Wales made his adieux to the Argentine at the ranch of Poloist Jack Nelson. A special train, preceded by a pilot train, whisked him 700 miles across the pampas to Mendoza. There the Prince changed to a special train of the Trans-Andean Railways, was drawn across the divide by two engines, arrived in the pleasant greenery of Santiago di Chili. He began at once to accomplish five gala days, spiced with Chilean ardor...
Already half a mile above land, their ship was being drawn with incredible speed by this last, fiercest rod of wind another mile upward...
...three hours Mr. Lewis uttered speech of bewildering power drawn from argument and emotion, fact and fancy, figures and phrases. Most incisively he attacked the operators' propaganda that any increases in wages must be paid by the public. They should be paid, said Mr. Lewis, from the operators' enormous profits. And he cited endless statistics to prove the enormousness of the profit,?for example, said he, the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Co. made $7,182,000 or 31% on its investment in 1924, would make over $11,000,000 or 51% in 1925, issued a 200% stock dividend...
...pilot train hastening through the night to Huetel, down the tracks from Buenos Aires. . . Behind it a train of gorgeously fitted cars drawn by two engines . . . In a spacious bed, a sleeping Prince...
...story is drawn from certain episodes in the Nibelungen legends from which Richard Wagner fashioned famous operas. The forging of the sword, the search for the princess Kremhild; the pact to trick Brunhild into marriage with Kremhild's brother; and the death of Siegfried are chief incidents. The magic of ancient imaginations lives again in the magic of the modern camera as Siegfried wanders through the enchanted wood, slays the dragon, becomes impervious to weapon wounds, captures the web whereby he can change his shape at will...