Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wounded they warned that anyone appearing at an open window would be shot. Despite the warning, curiosity was too much for three old women and for Charles Eray Mackay, a newsgatherer from New Zealand. Reporter Mackay ventured out on the street, the old women out on their balconies. All four were shot dead by the watchful police...
...Toll of four days of street fighting: 27 killed, more than 100 wounded...
...United We Stand'' would not do as a motto for Austria. In fact, during the cabinet crisis of 36 days which ended last week, the four principal parties in the republic battled each other to a standstill so often that it seemed almost time to hang up the D. W. F. sign−"Divided We Fall." Almost every day War Minister Karl Vaugoin stormed that the republic ought to fall, repeatedly demanded proclamation of a dictatorship...
...Four U. S. singers will make their Metropolitan debuts: 1) Santa Biondo, lyric soprano, born in Palermo, brought to New Haven, Conn., as a child, lately a member of the San Carlo and American Opera Companies; 2) Eleanor La Mance, Jacksonville mezzo-soprano, well known in small Italian opera houses; 3) Gladys Swarthout, Kansas City mezzo-soprano, formerly of the Chicago Opera; 4) Edward Ransome, tenor, born in Canada, U. S. citizen, known in Italy as Edoardo di Renzo...
...Edith Wharton expatriate variety. Bubbling over with abundance of "material," Author Bromfield has been praised for having much to say, blamed for saying it hastily in slovenly prose. This time he says less, says it better. Awake and Rehearse is a macabre title for a group of 13 stories (four are new; nine have appeared in magazines), each of which concerns death in the form of a corpse, or a jar of human ashes, or eyes with the light gone out of them. Approximating novels in manner and matter two of the longest represent the author at his best...