Word: heaped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sacker and the Dictator have been friends for years, and now that they are at the top of the heap, Sacker thinks he is sitting pretty. As organizer and commander of the 1,600,000 National Volunteers that put Hillier in power, he feels himself indispensable, thinks Hillier will give him a free hand to reorganize England into a tight little fighting machine. "He began describing the England he would create when he and his friends were in charge. It made me wince. It was like nothing more than a fearful sort of public school, with willing fags, a glorious...
Engagements followed as a matter of course, but mostly in Negro schools and churches. In 1930 she gambled on a trip to Germany, studied intensively for a few months, finally hired a hall for $500. Critics then pronounced her a full-fledged artist, began to heap superlatives on her voice. Thereafter she toured widely in Europe. At the Salzburg Festival last summer Critic Herbert F. Peyser of the New York Times wrote of her as "one of the greatest living singers." Even with such praise she has remained levelheaded, happiest when with her own people. She could have been roundly...
...spite of all temptations to take his tongue out of his cheek and go up higher, Author Stong remains at the top of his heap, lustily cock-a-doodling. At 36 he is president of the Authors Club. His latest novel. Career, pleased his friends, fooled nobody. A specious, shrewdly contrived melodrama of Iowa small-town life, Career rang all the approved changes on the old tune of the unconsidered village wise man, the turkey-gobbler-villain banker, the solid youth who will go far, and the girl with bad blood who has come far enough. It was in orchestrating...
...Kouchakji Frères has had a practical monopoly on excavations on the site of ancient Antioch, the city in Asia Minor where Christians were first called by that name. In 1910 a party of Arab workmen who had often been employed by the Kouchakjis came upon a heap of buried treasure that contained, among other things, a cross, three book covers and two chalices all of silver and all of excellent workmanship. The finders, with a shrewd idea of their worth, traded cross, covers and chalices to a syndicate of Arab merchants, who after a battle royal of bargaining...
...Italian again, he suddenly appeared at the head of his tribesmen, wrecked and raided the small railway station of Lassarat, seized rifles and munitions, but prudently faded into the mountains without tearing up the tracks. ¶ Day after day Italian aviators continued to drop bombs on Daggah Bur, a heap of dust that once was a mud village marking the northernmost point of Italy's advance on the South Front. The town was abandoned. Ethiopians insisted that a wounded chicken was the only casualty. ¶ Most graphic description of the reason for the stalling of Italy's advance...