Word: intently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major General Arturo de Echona and a ring of other potentates and sportsmen in Colombia's commercial centre, Barranquilla, stood keenly intent last week around a table covered with a red cloth. At the table Manhattan's marble champion Vinnie Sullivan, 13, who is making a South American tour, gave an exhibition of championship aggie-cracking...
...average, three strokes less than his fourth-round average. That third morning at Interlachen was a little cooler. Jones started by sinking a ten-foot putt on the first green, played par golf to the fourth where he took the first of six birdies. His gallery, stirred to an intent, incredulous tension, saw that he might have a 66 for the round, but he drove into a trap at the seventeenth and sliced his drive into a clump of trees on the home hole. These were his only mistakes in the greatest round that he or any man ever played...
Travelers returning from Italy last week told of a striking portent in connection with Signor Benito Mussolini's fiery speaking tour on which he thundered against the "enemies of Italy" (without mentioning them) at Leghorn, Florence, Milan (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Perhaps with intent to frighten would-be assassins, an astonishing poster was stuck up everywhere. It showed the face of Il Duce in thunder-black silhouette. Circling his face in lightning-like letters were these words: "GOD SENT US THIS MAN! WOE BETIDE HIM WHO HARMS...
...Florence Sheftel Bache, divorced wife (1925) of Financier Jules Semon Bache of Manhattan, window-shopping in Paris, paused to gaze at a display of stones in a jeweler's show window. Her gaze turned quickly to intent scrutiny. She notified the police, soon recovered nearly all of $160,000 worth of jewels which were stolen from her when, in 1928 at Biarritz, she was chloroformed while napping in her hotel room...
...first, "The Open Door," in memory of Calvin Coolidge Jr., was published in the issue of October 1929). "The Quest": Crossing the uplands of time, Skirting the borders of night, Scaling the face of the peak of dreams, We enter the region of light And, hastening on with eager intent, Arrive at the rainbow's end, And there uncover the pot of gold Buried deep in the heart of a friend. Macfadden is the name which the Chamber of Commerce of Redding, Calif, will bestow upon the central peak of the Castle Crags (near Mount Shasta) at a ceremony...