Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paris. "Don't let me fall. "Don't let me fall." Gendarmes did not let her fall. Thus she was carried through the crush at Le Bourget field to face the official welcomers. Rushed to the Union Interallied for the first reception; still clad in knickerbockers; her only baggage a lipstick; she made her first official speech; thanks; 26 words...
...replied M. Schwartzbard, his face lit with fanatical exultation...
Trial. The case opened with M. Schwartzbard telling the court in a high pitched voice and halting French, his beady eyes gleaming, his face suffused with joy, how he had tracked Petlura down. With a photograph of his intended victim in his pocket and a loaded pistol in another, he was wont to roam the street peering into the faces of passers-by to see if they were Petlura. All this, he said, he did to avenge the assassinations of his coreligionists. Finally, he found and killed...
Many witnesses called by the prosecution declared that Petlura was not an enemy of the Jews, but Maitre Torres insisted that "Petlura's proclamations expressing indignation over the pogroms were mere blinds. While murdering Jewish men, women & children, he had to maintain a straight face before the opinion of the world. He also wanted money from Jewish bankers...
...University soccer team will face the strong Pennsylvania booters on Franklin Field this morning at 11 o'clock, preliminary to the football game this afternoon, while the Freshmen will remain at home and play the Bradford Durfee Textile School team at 2 o'clock on Soldiers Field...