Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Habichtsburg ("Hawk's Castle") stood anciently upon a bluff near the confluence of the Rhine and Aar. From it the later Royal and Imperial House of Habsburg took its name almost 1,000 years ago. Once Holy Roman Emperors, at various later periods Emperors of Austria, Kings of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Spain and finally Emperors of Austria-Hungary, this potent family reached its apogee during the 68-year reign of the Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary (born 1830, ascended 1848, died 1916). Last week the Hungarian press blazed with rumors that a kinsman of the "Grand Old Emperor...
William Sowden Sims, retired Rear Admiral: "Sitting peacefully in my home at Newport, R. I., last week, I was startled by a sudden crash at a window beside me. I leaped to my feet, ready for the worst. Upon the floor amid jagged splinters of glass lay a hawk as big as a Rhode Island...
...high wires snored. The crowd vibrated like a church window shaken by an organ pipe. They discovered that Lieutenant C. F. Shilt, U. S. M. C., flying a 615 horsepower Curtiss, was second with an average speed of 231.363 miles an hour. Lieutenant Tomlinson, in an old Curtiss Hawk, was way behind them all. The third American, Lieutenant Cuddihy, came down with engine trouble. So did Captain Ferrarin, famed Rome-to-Tokyo flyer. Lieutenant Adriano Bacula, 218.006 miles an hour, was third...
...peril from the Chippewas, and so relentlessly did he insist that she, despairing, sent for her true love to come back from the war. Home came Chatonska galloping over the plains only to be branded as a deserter, exiled. And Winona, beaten and wedded against her will to the hawk-nosed stranger, jumped to her death from a lonely rock...
...sleek French packet Amiral Pierre steamed southward through the Mediterannean last week her first cabin passengers regarded with awe a squat, hawk-beaked Moroccan with a short bristling black beard who appeared now and then on deck always accompanied by two armed French guards. Spain and France had poured out hundreds of millions in gold, and tens of thousands in lives to place the sardonic Moroccan with his brother, their wives and suite upon the Amiral Pierre. Not six months ago Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim and his brother Muhammed were holding the Riffian fastnesses of Morocco against that master...