Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frontier of San Marino. Surely, said Il Duce's agents last week, surely the Grand Council would cooperate in this great scheme of progress by appropriating the cost of completing the railway from the frontier straight in to the Borgo? Any other course would be to fly in the face of Providence, to refuse a generous offer, to antagonize the whole teeming sea of Italy above which San Marino rises like a silent islet...
...after another 31 horses found 250 lb. too great a weight to carry at full gallop. Yet, spurred by Death behind, General Gallegos changed from horse to horse, his body anguished from jouncing, his face haggard, fearful...
...Start. Dropping its landing gear to lessen its load, the White Bird skirted the southern coasts of England and Ireland, pointed its nose toward Newfoundland. It had no wireless. It was flying north of the usual steamship lanes. An angry wind from the west was beating in its face, slowing its speed. Expecting to reach New York in 35 hours, it carried only enough gasoline for 40 hours flying...
Meanwhile experts expressed astonishment that the White Bird should take off in the face of unfavorable weather conditions. Weather Bureau officials said that adverse winds in Mid-Atlantic would retard the plane by 25 miles an hour. Said U. S. Aviator Floyd Bennet: "Fighting a head wind is discouraging and uses a lot of gasoline...
...killed, Kit O'Brien leaves Petersburg, 111., with two of his friends. Hungry, they steal apple pie. His friends get caught, but Kit proceeds, Huck Finn fashion, down the Illinois River into the Mississippi. There on a houseboat he finds Miss Siddons, an impoverished ac tress with a disfigured face, living with a madman. When Kit dis covers that she too is an outcast from Petersburg, he obligingly takes her back there. Expecting to be arrested for the pie episode, he goes to the house of George Montgomery, who takes him in and hides him. Soon the sheriff comes...