Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California, a $35.000,000 bond issue to bridge the Golden Gate...
After the ceremony Sofia erupted with Bulgar abandon. Public buildings were strung with electric bulbs. Men, women, children clambered like monkeys up the high iron grille of the palace gate, danced in the streets till dawn. Police did not allow the playing of the Fascist hymn "Giovinezza," but revelers sang themselves hoarse with "0 Sole Mio" in Bulgarian. At the palace it was announced, next day, that Their Majesties had slipped out a back door and danced unrecognized in the streets with their subjects...
...glistening-eyed approval as "The Feast of Raw Meat" began. Lowing oxen had been driven into the courtyard of the palace until it was almost full. His Majesty's loyal soldiers were to eat first. Beaming upon these fine fellows, Power of Trinity I personally opened the courtyard gate. In swarmed the hungry troopers, fell upon the oxen with their swords, drank the warm, rich blood, tore the raw meat (Abyssinia's national delicacy) from gory flanks which in some cases had not ceased to live. Began seven days of raw meat gorging for the populace in general...
...Knoxville. Tenn., Mrs. Ruth Jenkins Gate sued for divorce because her baby's first words, "Damn it to hell.'' were caused, she said, by her husband's habitual profanity...
...visitor's left as he enters the gate is another three-story section, joining a five-story section which turns the corner of the Drive and runs along Boylston Street, meeting the central building at the corner nearest Smith Balls. The library is located on the second floor of the section at the corner of Boylston Street and Memorial Drive...