Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...content providing the posters bear no improper sentiments. And of course there is no good reason why he should, especially if the Postal authorities object. However, much as one may dislike propaganda of any sort plastered over his private correspondence, the line here seems to be rather arbitrarily drawn...
...swaggering Toreador, a wistful ingenue for Micaela, but if there is no soprano hot-blooded enough to ape an untamed gypsy and sufficiently magnetic to project her titillating arias across the footlights and into the far reaches of the theatre, Merimée's story becomes cheap and long-drawn, Bizet's tunes trite and shop-worn...
...shells. A dozen young ladies of the harem lay on their backs in two parallel rows; they were dressed alike, with fascinating headbands, large earrings of gold, veils held in place by slender copper pins. Guardsmen stood at attention. In the offing was the great king's chariot, drawn by two asses. Grooms held the reins; another flunky was in attendance. Gaming boards with dice, copper bowls, tumblers, and other diversions awaited His Majesty. But he was nowhere to be seen. It did not matter for all these people had been dead since circa 3500 B. C. Their flesh...
...Atlantic," he said last week, "on a simple, non-political mission of thanks to the American people.... For many years, during our struggle for Irish independence, we received more than $15,000,000 from America every Christmas . . . . It is due in no small measure to America that our long drawn out struggle ... was brought to a successful issue .-. . . Besides thanking the American people through President Coolidge. I hope to meet as many Americans as possible...
Today there will be sounds of music and dancing of Juniors in the streets; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth for those who are cast into outer darkness, for the draw has been made. The little brown envelopes have been drawn out of the pillow case or other receptacle used, and from the fingers of the benevolent committee honey has dripped to some and gall to others...