Word: hewn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midnight every night this week is being unrolled on the Tremont Theatre screen one of those rough-hewn masterpieces which emerge every now and then from the U.S.S.R., possessing none of the polish but many of the sturdier virtues which most of our Hollywood hothouse products lack. Only the one show at 12 o'clock, is being given...
...have lost their lives and only 500 had suffered wounds of various sorts, though the entire upper structure of the Alcázar had been pounded to jagged chunks. Never could even superbly trained West Pointers have thus held out had not much of the Toledo Fortress been hewn out of living rock and its enormous cellars kept fully stocked with food, wine and munitions by Commandant Moscardo...
...driven back by sickening gasoline fumes while the blaze soon guttered out on the rocks. To save his Red face after this fiasco, General José Asensio of the Red militia started talking about how sorry he was for the White women and young cadets in the rock-hewn cellars of the Alcázar from which no Red efforts seemed able to dislodge them...
Little chessmen, small enough to be packed into a thimble; big chessmen, large enough to serve as bookends; crude chessmen, roughly hewn out of wood; and sparkling chessmen, delicately fashioned in precious metals--all will be included in the exhibit...
...Although uncared for for many hundreds of years the walls of the tremendons citadel which defended the town are still over 40 feet high. Whole appartments of chambers are hewn in the living rock of the precipitous cliff and engraved with the auuals of the dynasty of kings in the Vannic language which is only partly understood, and whose exact linguistic connections are a matter of hot dispute...