Word: erects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bygone dress uniforms ? the blue and red of the infantry, the blue and gold of the navy, the white, green, black, blue, yellow and pink of the cavalry. Feldmar-schall Mackensen, "Faithfullest of the Faithful," entered the hall amid a thunder of hocks, his dry, jockeylike figure erect as ever despite its years. The long-necked, chinless figure escorting him was. of course, the boy?now a middle-aged man?whom he had tutored and drilled so long, Fredrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who was to have been a Kaiser. With them also came the other onetime princes?Eitel Friedrich, like...
...Horses are its main theme outside of classroom. The school has well-filled stables. Girls who can, may board their own horses. With their parents' consent and Miss Charlotte's approval of their horsemanship, they may ride in the foxhunts for which Middleburg is famed. Miss Charlotte, a hale, erect, full-bodied horsewoman in her late 30's with clear grey eyes, fresh complexion and prematurely grey hair, rides with them. Her piebald jumper's name is "War Paint...
...directorate of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Reason: "I did not think it ethical to be director of the Metropolitan and at the same time be head of a real-estate company [Empire State Inc.] which was applying for a large loan from the Metropolitan Life with which to erect a building" [WaldorfAstoria building, Manhattan...
Known to the western world chiefly through Rudyard Kipling's story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," Herpestes griseus (or mungo) is a dingy grey-brown rodent about 30 inches long including a pointed tail. When excited, its long stiff hairs stand erect. This bristling hair, together with thick skin, is one of the mongoose's protections against the fangs of serpents. Contrary to hearsay, the mongoose is not immune to snakebite except by dint of its intuitive agility. With uncanny timing it dodges thrust after thrust of the serpent, gradually exhausts its enemy, then darts in, bites the nape...
...Edinburgh Review was the first magazine of its kind in the United Kingdom. Punster Sydney Smith, its first editor, aimed "to erect a higher standard of merit, and secure a bolder and a purer taste in literature, and to apply philosophical principles and the maxims of truth and humanity to politics." The Review was originally Whig; its cover, buff and blue, always proclaimed its old faith...