Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With high appetites and eager eyes more than 8,000 responded to Haile Selassie's invitation for a Guebbeur last week. The Emperor merely filled his palace courtyard with freshly slaughtered cattle and opened the gate. Screaming with gusto, each trooper made parallel cuts with his knife in an animal's flanks, seized the end of the strip of flesh between his teeth, pulled with a blood-gushing rip, chewed hard. As usual, the climax of the Guebbeur came a little later when the Imperial Guard grew drunk on the hot blood and cups of potent native mead. Though obliged...
Football has brought out an exceptionally large number of candidates this fall. Other factors which have contributed to the pre-college sociability of Cambridge streets are the Bible and Shakespeare exams which have also favorably affected the gate receipts of "Macbeth" and "Othello" in Boston this week, the early issues of the various publications, and the necessity of changing schedules, rooming quarters and so forth...
...royal palace. Streamers of crepe, left over from the funeral of King Albert, appeared on all the balconies. Cafè orchestras put away their music, snapped their fiddle cases shut. Hour after hour the bells of Ste. Gudule Cathedral tolled, and the crowds waited patiently by the palace gate. From mouth to mouth stories of the dead Queen began to spread...
...Soviet Government gave Jan Otmar Berson 72 hours in which to get out of Russia. Thundered the official Soviet newsorgan Pravda: "When some swindler takes advantage of Soviet hospitality and, despite warnings, dares to insult repeatedly and insolently the dignity of the Soviet people, then he is shown the gate...
Died. Gustav Lindenthal, 85, famed U. S. bridge builder; after long illness; in Metuchen, N. J. Builder of the Hell Gate. Manhattan and Queensboro Bridges, Austrian-born Engineer Lindenthal's fondest dream was never fulfilled: a giant span across the Hudson River at 57th Street, opposed by the War Department for reasons of wartime navigation. Also built by Engineer Lindenthal were Pennsylvania R. R.'s Hudson and East River tunnels...