Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ocean Park, Cal., one "Porky" Jacobs sat in an anchored floating barrel, stuck out his bearded face after more than 100 hours, announced himself world's sit-in-a-floating-barrel champion...
...happened on the vacation of Philip Eaton, chemistry instructor at St. Marks, smart Massachusetts boys' preparatory school. Teacher Eaton had installed himself in a flat in Halfmoon Street, Mayfair, London. There he was found one morning by his housemaid, sprawled in a pool of blood. About his head, face and hands were razor cuts, ghastly after twelve hours of bleeding. On his body were heavy bruises...
Across dazzling millions of little sun-flecked wavelets Prime Minister Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha last week came sailing home. Smiles softened his arrogant face. Fellow passengers noted with what gusto His Excellency ate. Oranges he seemed especially to relish. Here was a contented traveler who had been to distant London and brought the draft text of a proposed treaty which optimistic phrase-coiners were already calling "The Magna Carta of Egyptian Liberty...
...Soong, scion of the great "Soong Dynasty" of Shanghai bankers, would no more be a party to China's orgy of military waste. In fine, he announced his resignation as Finance Minister of the Nationalist Government. "I prefer to retire," concluded Banker Soong, "rather than face the just censure of a sorely tried people...
...back to the wall! They're building nine theatres to one Church. All people think of is entertainment-movies and the like. They offered me $1,000,000 to go into the movies, but I turned it down. I can do more good speaking to the people face to face...