Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Hero" and "Dictator" Marshal Josef Pilsudski. Towering and eccentric, the Marshal showed to his visitors a most amiable side of his often petulant and arbitrary character. Perhaps he was touched when one of the pilgrims, Mile. Janusewska, an especially attractive young woman, sank weeping at his feet, overcome at the moment when she was supposed to have made a little speech accompanying the presentation of a handsome gold-handled sabre...
...region of Yermuk, as the quake began, a railway train was chuffing steadily along rails laid on the side of a hill only six feet from the edge of a 300-foot precipice. In one of the cars rode Lieutenant Colonel George Stewart Symes, Acting British High Commissioner for Palestine...
Reputedly Senator Bingham, six feet tall and harsh of voice, told the small and slim but ruthless Chang Tso-lin that if he ordered the execution of Mme. Borodin public opinion in the U. S. would consider the War Lord a mere barbarian...
...highest altitude ever reached by an airplane was 40,820 feet (almost 7½ miles) by Jean Callizo in a Bleriot-Spad biplane with Lorraine motor...
...Hoboken was in court accused of henpecking her husband, allowing him only 50¢ per day to spend. Miss Patterson was sent to interview this unusual woman. Climbing to the top of a Hoboken tenement, Miss Patterson tapped on a door and at once confronted a beldame "about ten feet wide." Miss Patterson started to explain that she was from the Daily News. No sooner had she named that name than the "wide" woman approached, menacingly. "Downstairs I went," Miss Patterson told Editor & Publisher, "and not exactly right side up either...