Word: facings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between city management and a return to the old mayor-and-ward-politics system. Manager Hopkins and friends were receiving election returns. Manager Hopkins was winning. A little moved by his success, he strolled to an open window, gazed long at a bright moon. The tight lines of his face relaxed. Coughing for attention, he spoke in blank verse...
...again they fell to. The young, less experienced, saw his opponent's blade arch, flicker, fall. Cleanly the sabre skewered his face from nose to mouth. He stood motionless...
...Story. Gučret was a huge stoop-shouldered young man, his full and sallow face had a fleshy nose, thick lips, grey eyes, a blighted look. He worked as tutor to small André Grosgeorge. Once Madame Grosgeorge surprised the two in the garish lesson-room when André was stumbling over his history. Gučret heard the softness in her voice as she called her son: "Come closer. . . . Raise your head and look at me." Then, clenching her teeth, she struck the boy suddenly across the face and with sadistic greed in her black eyes, watched the red mark fade. Horrified...
...climbed into her bedroom after midnight, but she was sleeping elsewhere. In the morning he found her, took her to the river bank, twisted her arm to make her admit he disgusted her. She began screaming shrilly in terror and in equal terror he began beating her over the face with a convenient club. In his flight he joyfully murdered an oldster who seemed to be watching...
...steel pier. For ten weeks they will tour the country, beginning at the dedication of Foshay Tower in Minneapolis. Bandmaster Sousa, 74, has swung his baton a half-century. Today he is keen-eyed, grey-haired, martial. Gone is the pointed black beard which used to punctuate his face on billboards. Before a concert he pulls on a new pair of white kid gloves, afterwards peels them off, autographs them for lady admirers. To aspiring young bandmasters he says: "Do not be obscure. ... It will ruin your work." To embryo musicians he says: "Mastery of the harmonica lays the foundation...