Word: heaping
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...curtain calls with my partner after our burlesque number we achieve an added effect by my flying exits into the wings. It the stage manager has had an attack of absent mindedness and is conspicuous by his being away, I either land up against the wall or in a heap on the floor...
...seed of a miraculous music. Like a galaxy of flowers the notes bloomed invisibly in the close greenhouse air of the concert hall; drifted and swirled like petals under the hot chandeliers. They blew upwards in a fountain of chords; they showered down, fell in a bright silent heap. Listeners cheered...
...Yard was largely dissipated last night by the discovery that previous to the construction of Appleton Chapel and the old Gore Half Library all of the Yard cast of University Hall was a barren waste. The part immediately behind University I was evidently used as a dump heap which accounts for the presence of the broken cups and plates there...
...equipment of today is not the junk heap on wings that some people would make you believe it is," said able, active F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, to railroad men in New Haven, Conn., last week. He sketched the five-year aviation program, now under way: 2,000 airplanes, 1,650 flying officers, 500 flying cadets, 14,500 enlisted men-for the Army Air Corps before 1932. The Navy has a similar program...
...great men thus greatly honored, who bore the coffin to the special funeral railway station, and placed it on the funeral car. . . . At dawn, the Emperor was entombed in a cement vault set into a hill overlooking Fujiyama, beloved and sacred mountain of Japan. Workmen at once began to heap up an immense tumulus over the vault; and since no human foot is allowed to tread above an Emperor, the workmen had to be "purified" by a peculiar rite. After this rite they become officially "no longer men, but white winged birds which fly with earth and sand in their...