Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...championing of Lincoln in the face of some of the Democrats in her own family was partly a childish whim, partly an indefinable urge to help the under...
Located on the two south gables of Kirkland House, the two dials are visible only to residents of Eliot whose windows face north on the cement court. They are not of much use even to those who can see them, however, for the eastern one is half an hour slow, while its western mate, over by Boylston Street, lags an hour behind. Perhaps the fact that the faces of the dials are upside down, with 12 o'clock on the bottom, might explain their unfortunate derangement...
Twenty-seven years ago a lean, gloomy Russian with a long face and convict haircut heard his Prelude in C-sharp Minor crash across the U. S. on a thousand pianos and make him famous. Long before that time Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff had been charming Europe with his brooding, regretful compositions, bewildering concertgoers with his speed and skill on the piano. But one ambition, to write a great symphony, he had not achieved. His First Symphony, in 1897, fell so flat that he needed a hypnotist to restore his nerve. His Second, in 1908, fared better, was praised...
...adopts an impersonal tone, discourses on the duties of Federal agents, gives an unilluminating sketch of his own background, discusses the habits of gangsters and the weakness of law enforcement, retells the stories of the Factor, Bremer, Urschel and Robinson kidnappings, the deaths of Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger. Best parts of American Agent are its thumbnail biographies of public enemies: Verne Miller, migratory worker, parachute jumper, sergeant in the U. S. Army, who became a sheriff before he became a gangster, then posed as a wealthy oilman and joined exclusive clubs; George Ziegler, landscape engineer, University...
...antique naturally enough, the imposing engine must be wound with a key. So that there may be a discrimination between day and night, half of the 24 hours on the face are depicted in black...