Word: drowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moissac on the Tarn, Guillaume Durand, sabot-maker, saw his wife and three relatives drown while he stood on a wall with two children on his shoulders. In the nave of the village church were piled 100 corpses. On the highroad below medieval Albia man and woman, complete strangers clung to a treetop for 33 hours, during which time the woman gave birth to a child. Seriously damaged was the Bordeaux wine country-hundreds of vineyards in Sauternes, Barsacs, whence sweet white wines, were uprooted...
...fellow. In the effort to keep sane under terrible pressure some minds infect themselves deliberately with tiny manias. One sailor hangs onto a Chinese vase-he wants to save that-and another whittles a boat out of a chip of wood to play with in the water that will drown him. On the plunging surface of the water up above, rescuers get to work, and one by one the members of the crew are shot out of a torpedo tube until only a single man is left, and he has a reason for staying. Men Without Women was written...
...your issue of Dec. 23 under the title of "Montezuma, Tripoli, and Beyond," contains the following reference to "The Marines' Hymn": "But hard boiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown out anything suggestive of home or homesickness with their Corps anthem, "From the Halls of Montezuma," a song of many unprintable versions." (italics supplied...