Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the History 1 faculty has been brought face to face with the fact that the Dizzy Dean at the Freshman Smoker had nothing to do with deans of University Hall, it might repay inquiry to discover how any responsible person could get such an idea of the men who administer the daily life of the college. For a man holding the position of dean must combine the executive ability to keep the wheels of industry rolling, the personal charm to inspire the confidence of students and outsiders with whom he comes in contact, and the intellectual outlook...
Many times the writer has stood in the wing of the bridge with his oilskins drawn tightly about him, held securely by a "body and soul" lashing, his so'wester pulled down over his eyes while the rain beat an incessant tattoo upon his face patiently waiting for eight bells to strike so that in the quiet seclusion of his room, he could have a pleasant social visit with Mark Twain, Kenneth Roberts or a glance at TIME or FORTUNE before he turned over to sleep. All this, of course, while the gale raged and howled outside his comfortable...
...Others dragged Tony Machado, the driver, from his mesh-protected cab. Police rushed to his rescue throwing gas grenades. The strikers fell back coughing, charged again. Behind a barricade surrounding the cannery deputies opened fire with riot guns. In the first fusillade, Striker Bill Tucker went down with a face and chestful of birdshot (see cut). The battle raged back and forth. Fourteen automobiles full of deputies arrived and were met by a barrage of rocks that broke their windows. Wounded men fell on every side. A would-be good Samaritan, Elmo Botkin, rushed in bearing a first...
...while his mother and father went off to the hospital. Then Robert got the flu. Long before his father came back alone from the hospital, Robert guessed the worst. Both James and Robert blamed themselves, in silence, for Elizabeth's death. James thought he could not face living with his children, planned to sell the house, get rid of everything that could possibly remind him of his dead wife. Then he saw frightened little Bunny staring at him with Elizabeth's eyes...
...part of the British. It is an opportunity to use Briain's sea power, and try a bluff of war to quiet a man who has laughed at Europe after a series of successful bluffs himself. The situation will require something stronger than "muddling through", and how the British face it will determine the future of their prestige...