Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lined up against a wall with Martinez Pulido, the latter asked him for a loan of a few pesos, which he placed on his sombrero, promising them to the soldiers on condition that they shot him through the heart. "Be sure and pay them back," said General Palacios, laughingly, as he made the loan...
According to eyewitnesses, as he was placed with his back against the customary wall he showed considerable signs of fear. He first asked that his eyes be bandaged, for it was bad enough to be shot-let alone see the leveled rifles pointing at his heart. His request was promptly complied with. Then, leaning against the wall for support, he asked that the command to fire be silent...
...worked: "Evening after evening he remained at work. Our dinner hour was always uncertain. If we induced him to attend the theatre, he always went back to the tunnel afterward, spending hours in the field offices and personally supervising the work." It exhausted him and he died, 1924, of heart failure. The states made his tunnel a horizontal shaft over his memory...
...discovery has shaken the dermato-logical world to its foundations, although anyone who doesn't keep right up on their dermatological world would never notice it. Perhaps the most tragic of its implications is the disappearance of the bald-headed row. Many a chorus girl's heart will be broken at the disappearance of the mirrors that served for so many years. But the discovery has other advantages than those of beauty. The gold springs not only enable the hair to stand on end, but also to quiver. The mind becomes the treasure house of the soul in a literal...
...verses were mostly "adult opinions in grown-up language". "I wouldn't have in my book a poem with 'birdie' in it, even if Alfred Tennyson did write it." I fondly thought that Campbell's "Battle of the Baltic" would appeal to him, for it contained the phrase "Heart of Oak," which was the name of his "Books"; but no! "That was bad business for England to be in, and I won't have...