Word: julians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wait for clear weather. (LINDYS LOST IN ARCTIC SEA headlined the catchpenny New York Evening Graphic.) Several hours later they reached Nome, put their ship down on Safety Bay, 21 mi. away, instead of in the Nome River. There they dined on reindeer meat with Territorial Senator Alfred Julian Lomen; witnessed an Eskimo "wolf dance," performed for the second time in 20 years; heard oldtime wireless operators pay tribute to Mrs. Lindbergh as "a good ham [amateur operator]. Her signals were clear and nice." Colonel Lindbergh announced casually that from the Orient -he and Mrs. Lindbergh would fly on across...
...making a speech on the first day of Spain's Republican Parliament. At the height of the uproar, when chandeliers shook with the din, Narciso Vasquez Lemus, the oldest Deputy, who was presiding, clapped his hat on his ancient cranium and adjourned the meeting. Two things were accomplished: Julian Besteiro, moderate Socialist leader, was elected President of the Assembly (Speaker of the House). Deputies, who dearly love their siestas, agreed that the Cortes should meet at 7 p. m., remain in session until midnight "because of the heat...
...best shot is his forehand though until this year it was so undependable that he made j a habit of borrowing his friends' rackets, taking lessons, practicing against a wall when the trick deserted him. Two of his uncles are Watson Washburn, 19 21 Davis Cup player, and Julian S. Myrick, onetime (1920-22) president...
...loud insurgency, which made it seem a thousandfold its size. (The analogy with Communism is disconcertingly close.)" When Christianity became legal, then official, it began what Browne describes as a reign of terror. "Of all the virtues possessed by the Christians, tolerance was last and least." Under Julian the Apostate's empery came a brief interregnum. Even St. Augustine is flayed by Author Browne. "The extravagance of his belief in the innate wickedness of mankind leads one to suspect that he may have suffered from some psychic maladjustment. Perhaps the root of the trouble lay in his peculiar emotional relationship...
...Author. Julian Duguid, 29, was too young to fight in the War. After leaving Oxford he went vaguely to London to do something vaguely literary. He tried school-teaching for a few years, then jumped at the chance to go exploring. He is now unofficially visiting the Matto Grosso expedition in order to complete a forthcoming biography of Tiger-Man Siemel. Last month Publisher Century radioed him that Green Hell had sold out three editions (16,000 copies...