Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surprise was not the reaction of well-posted observers. They know that the other judges of the World Court are not filled with gladness when they espy the ruddy, oval face and trim white beard of John Bassett Moore...
Eventually this discreet and exceptional communication came under the piercing but kindly eye of great M. Painlevé. He studied the photograph, saw a face of rugged grandeur. He read the attestations of Mme. Jacquet's poaching ways with an egg, learned that her pot au feu was delectable and sound. Finally the War Minister decided that in this instance the uncertain quantity or "X" stood for a good & honest cook. Therefore Mme. Jacquet Was appointed, last week, to the regiment at Tourelles until such time as it may be ordered upon active service. Pleased but with a sense...
When Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary heard that Bela Kun was under lock & key in Vienna, he formally demanded his extradition into Hungary to face charges of having ordered the execution of 144 Hungarians during the 143 days of "Red Terror." Meanwhile, at Vienna, Russian Soviet Agents were said to be offering fat contracts to Austrian industry as an inducement to persuade the Austrian Government to "deport" Bela Kun back to Russia...
...have nothing to do with Wall Street. . . . From the meagre information I have the losses from looting our movable property may run to $100,000; but if the pipe line and mill plant have been destroyed the loss might run to $3,000,000 . . . and the owners would face ruin. ... I guess this is what comes of investing one's money in foreign countries...
...Barach was chosen as consultant because he has developed the oxygen tent which has already saved many otherwise hopeless cases of pneumonia. The pneumonia patient generally suffocates to death. The lungs become congested, he cannot take in enough air to keep alive, he gasps, coughs, turns blue in the face, dies. Dr. Barach's oxygen tent surrounds the patient's head and chest with an atmosphere of 60% oxygen. He no longer fights for air, it is fed to him. This was the tent through which Bennett greeted Lindbergh; in which he lived from the moment...