Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paid a flying visit to the offices and adjoining printing plant of his onetime newspaper Il Popolo d'ltalia, now conducted by his tousled-haired brother Arnaldo. When Brother Benito strode in, unannounced, at the busy hour of midnight, he found Brother Arnaldo hard at work in his shirt-sleeves and bade him by a gesture to continue. Passing on into the news and composing rooms Il Duce greeted many an old employe by name and by clapping him in fatherly fashion upon the back. Pausing before the ink-stained composing room roller towel he beamed and cried with...
Cholera strikes suddenly. Intense thirst is followed by acute cramps and collapse about the third day, when most deaths occur. During the collapse the face turns black, the skin becomes dry and hard, the voice fades. Early and extreme rigidity of the corpse is a striking feature of cholera and the origin of much superstition. Frequently the corpse will sit bolt upright on the stretcher as it is being carried to the morgue, or rise on its cot at home...
Tired after the long ride from Boston in one of the Canadian night-trains that stop at many junctions, on edge after the four hard games they had just played with only one day's rest between each game, the Rangers skated into the Montreal Forum feeling that it would be hard for them to get going. They were cut up and gashed-Johnson with the lobe of his nose torn through by a skate-point, Bun Cook with a charley-horse, Frank Boucher with a stitch over his eye. They were tired also from the strain of playing...
Virginia's hard-working little Carter Glass, now in the Senate, was one of the late Mr. Lane's closest friends and served with him in the Wilson Cabinet. Now, at Senator Robinson's remark, Senator Glass sprang up, storming: "Does the Senator mean to suggest that Franklin K. Lane ever accepted a bribe from Mr. Doheny? If he does then I denounce him here upon this floor as a slanderer...
...would have been hard to find a more representative radical among modern U. S. artists than John Sloan. In 1907, before the advent of cubism and futurism, he was listed among the "original 8,"* revolutionist painters who were contrasted with the conservatives' "original 10." In 1918, he was elected president of the Independent Artists, to succeed William J. Glackens, and has since modestly declared that he is still president only because he has been "unable...