Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost of millions of dollars to the city. Mr. Hayes's widowed mother went on his $25,000 bond. Last week Mr. Hayes's lawyers fought tooth & nail to save him by querying prospective jurors so closely that, after three weeks, they had accepted only eight out of a venire panel...
...long attracted Adolf Hitler as the best potential bread-supplier to the Nazi Fatherland. The Ukrainian masses have also long rebelled against "foreign" rule. They do not like Dictator Stalin, King Carol II of Rumania or their Polish masters. Because they were under German domination for only the eight closing months of the World War, Nazis hope that they prefer German tutelage as the least of evils...
Months of preparation were devoted to the anniversary of the Boer's futile trek for freedom. Three men in every four grew beards-symbols of Boer virility and spiritual grace. A caravan of eight oxcarts set out to follow the route of the original trek. As the caravan progressed, hysteria grew. At the instigation of German spellbinders the hysteria shaded from pride in pioneer traditions, to intense nationalism, to open hatred of British and Jews...
Climax of the celebration was the arrival in Pretoria of the eight dusty wagons. Because the Boers and their backers would not sing God Save the King, Prime Minister General J.B.M. Hertzog was obliged to stay away. The crowd of 150,000 would not listen to English. So a message from King George VI was read in Afrikaans, the Boer language. Then a tattered Transvaal flag, saved from falling into British hands in the Boer War, was unfurled high on the site of a monument soon to be erected to the Voertrekkers...
...exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery of Sloan, Luks, Henri, Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, Everett Shinn, Maurice Prendergast and William Glackens first linked these artists as "The Eight" U. S. individualists. None of them changed so much in the next ten years as Glackens. With much observation his versatile eye became intensely selective. As late as 1912 he painted a simple little picture of a snowy square and a lady hailing a streetcar (see cut) which perfectly evoked an atmosphere, mood and period. Then he selected a lighter palette, and from about 1913 on, Renoir became the dominant influence...