Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thesaurus hangover from the night before. But Mr. Diuguid triumphed even in death, lingering until the eleventh month of his 77th year. It is a proof of our perverted sense of values that a life so dedicated should win only a posthumous notoriety on the front page of the New York Times...
...marches in from Hagarstown by an exactly opposite direction to that in which the Union troops left for the same place. Amid fanfares of music, an endless line of soldiers, dressed in queer parodies of the Confederate uniform, passes under the balcony. If you are near enough to the front, you can quite plainly hear them racing around back stage to join the column again...
HOUSE OF COMMONS. On the front opposition bench there arose onetime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to demand a vote of censure upon the Government for its mismanagement of the coal industry problem and its neglect of the unemployment situation...
...white tunic and velvet breeches. The two small Arnaud girls were literally covered with vermin and also dressed in Moorish costume. They stopped crying when familiar French voices soothed them, but asked repeatedly for their mamma and papa. Baroness Steinheil's first request was for a mirror, in front of which she immediately set about powdering & rouging...
...Naples students emitted lusty cries of "Down with the Croats!" In Venice roiled crowds attempted to stage a riotous demonstration in front of the French and Jugoslav Consulates, engaging in a pitched battle with the police, their obstructors. After night fell they made a wild but fruitless dash by gondolas on the Jugoslav consular edifice...