Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the red face said he was James Starkey, 53, civil engineer with the Resettlement Administration and lifelong friend of Keene. He had not known the latter was going to be on the boat when he took it on Government business, had run into him on deck. He said he found Keene moody, evasive, had worried about him. This apparently accounted for the clerk's difficulty in understanding the relationship. When Keene had disappeared for a few hours and Starkey had questioned him, Starkey quoted his reply: "I've been in my stateroom talking over my deal." With...
...noted liberal, longtime opponent of the Archbishop of Canterbury and one of the few bishops openly to support Novelist A. P. Herbert's liberalized divorce law. Just before the Coronation at which, as one of the King's supporters, he gazed for hours straight into the face of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Durham announced that he felt it disgraceful that Roman Catholics and Non-Conformists were allowed to play no part in such an Empire celebration...
Still more revolutionary, on its face, was last week's close vote by the Chamber of Deputies (267-to-265) approving a bill for the complete abolition of tipping throughout France with the exception of casinos, gambling establishments and watering places...
...artificial respirator is a casket-like steel box 74 in. long, 65 in. high, 44 in. wide. At the front end is a rubber ruff through which Fred Snite's head projects face up, like a mystic's dream of bodiless intelligence. Within, on a sheeted mattress, lies his flaccid, wasted body covered with a night dress...
...diversion Fred Snite has adjustable mirrors rigged over his upturned face. These enable him to read, play games and to see his meals when they are placed on a table immediately back of his head. When a page of print is laid with its top at his hair, two mirrors enable him to read precisely as though the type were directly before his eyes. A single mirror turns the type upside down for him, but like a printer he can read it that way, too, with great facility. Another new accomplishment: he speaks Chinese...