Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back. It was then, says Sheriff Adkins, that he started discharging, not his bullet pistol, but his tear gas gun. He and Marion, N. C., were unfamiliar with this weapon, about the size and shape of a large flashlight. He got a lot of tear gas in his own face. The crowd recoiled. An old man reached the Sheriff and belabored him with a stick. While grappling this assailant, who later died, Sheriff Adkins says he heard his deputies start shooting their real guns. The crowd fled shrieking down the street in all directions. The deputies kept shooting. Bodies began...
Seven tankers under construction were sold for $16,800,000. Of this sum, $3,840,000 was in cash, the balance in first mortgage notes. Then the notes, face value $13,493,000, were sold for $2.940,000 to a company close to the purchaser of the tankers...
...industry, they have sold. The game is obviously mathematical and with a strong poker element. A player may have one Coal Mine card, for instance, which, if sold to another player might enable that player to break the bank. Or he might be willing to pay several times the face value for a Pottery card that would help him build up a Pottery monopoly. A smart Stock Exchange operator might be a tremendous success at the game, which resolves itself largely into clever trading. On the other hand, the better the game becomes as a game, the less effective...
Scotland Yard. Dakin Barrolles is an arch-thief who has his war-torn face plastically repaired in the image of the missing board chairman of the Bank of England. His resulting duplicity, which naturally extends into the bedroom of the banker's wife, prompts Sir Clive Heathcote of Scotland Yard to remark: "This is the greatest case the Yard has ever known!" The acting is bad. There are, however, some splendid sets-in a convent, a castle, London's Embassy Club-by a person named Yellenti, and an equally decorative heroine named Phoebe Foster...
...England the book aroused comment and gossip unusual even for the best bestsellers. Reason: it is a literary mystery. For Henry Handel Richardson is but the nom de plume of an authoress who conceals her real name. She is a robust, middle-aged London woman, long and strong of face, wife of an able scientist. Born in Australia, trained in Leipzig for the career of concert pianist, she published in 1908 a musical novel called Maurice Guest. Admired by discerning critics, this novel has enjoyed quiet prestige for 20 years-from time to time a new edition is printed...