Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When pouchy-eyed, foxy M Aristide Briand left the bedside of four-time Prime Minister Raymond Poincare, last week, he had himself held that office on previous occasions eleven times. He was now to make it twelve times?for last week party leaders of the numerous chamber factions agreed, almost unanimously, that no one could fill the political void created by M. Poincaré except M. Briand...
...feverish were New York crowds to see the Bremen during the four days she was in port that even the 70,000 passes which the North German Lloyd issued were not enough. Thousands of pink pier passes were forged, sold to Brooklyn crowds for $1 each...
...They are coming!" Out the portal, down the steps of the basilica marched detachments of Papal gendarmes in towering busbies. The blue-clad Palatine Guards wore helmets topped with lazy plumes. Followed many monks and the first of a host of 5,000 seminarians from all over the world. Four abreast, chanting, bearing lighted tapers, they followed the line of march beneath Bernini's massive colonnade which encloses St. Peter's Square. This took them in serpentine procession around a huge circle, back to the basilica steps. When the column's head drew up before the church, the last seminarian...
...devout sexagenarian, Sophie had large, black, red-rimmed eyes. When Gabriel eloped with her, his head was declared forfeit, for rape. Yet when she was captured he returned to her side just in time to prevent her taking the poison he knew she always carried with her. After four years in separate cells he stole to her one night, to find the long separation had made her a stranger, convent-grey and dull, while for him, a man, the four years' con- finement among books had served to unshackle his mind. Nevertheless, he passed up his chance of escape...
...crawls under sheet. Showers of sparks on the ground, then Crash!?a dark brown cloud over the front line. There is a curious noise close by. Something moves under the sheet. A jagged hole in it appears. Boo-oom!?pat-pat-pat! The ground shakes. Gas. Shrieks. Four years of this. Escape: death, a wound, a breakdown, intoxication, an occasional stolen feast. In 1918 comes disintegration, lack of coordination between common soldier and superior, retreat, final defeat...