Word: hails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street I saw a white woman crouched in the middle of Nanking Road, assisting her daughter in giving birth to a child, while a hail of death pelted from the skies. . . . Ambulance attendants pawed over bleeding figures in the street, selecting only those who had a chance to live...
...when he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School he tried to get into a football game free by offering to play any instrument in the band which lacked a player. He was handed an E-flat tuba with the music for Hail Pennsylvania in another key, and transposed it by reading the bass clef as the treble and subtracting the proper number of flats, later working out an explanatory equation. Today Lawyer Scott plays the French horn in the Germantown Symphony Orchestra, owns a 16th Century cello that once belonged to Virtuoso Hans Kindler. His favorite...
...place he was looking for. In a village called Santa Eulalia he spent five years off & on, went back for his last visit in July 1936, few days before civil war cut Iviza off from the world. In The Life and Death of a Spanish Town, Author Paul says hail & farewell to Santa Eulalia with heartfelt emotion, little knowing that Iviza would be on all front pages when his book came out as the scene of the bombing of the Deutschland (TIME, June...
Figures carved from wet sand are vulnerable to rain, wind and tide. Long ago the sand sculptors learned to mix one part of cement with three or four parts of beach, and their creations will withstand two or three years of hail or high water. But last week another force threatened to wipe out permanently much of the itinerant artists' handiwork and a livelihood which, although sand sculpturing has remained the piece de resistance and principal attraction, has lately come from the more lucrative practice of sketching board-walkers who pause to gawp at the modeling. Last week...
...scathing sun, and shrapnel of the hail...