Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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No roads lead to Nome, only the dazzling desert of the snow. But last week, Leonard Seppalla was not driving Scotty to a fever-stricken town near the Bering Strait with a cargo of serum strapped to his skidding sled. He was driving a team through the Adirondack woods, near...
So too of Mosca, who lies his master into wealth, and tricks him out of it again. His laugh at the moment of triumph is tight of mouth, and even as the curtain is erasing his story he is flinging florins to the grovelling gold-thirsty who had waited for...
As gentle as a deer and as ugly as a monkey, little El Ouati, the Algerian Marathon runner who won the Olympic race at Amsterdam last summer came to the U. S. in order to race for Promoter Bill ("Easy") Pickens. Last fortnight in Manhattan, he ran against Joie Ray...
Spreading their napkins upon expectant laps, the Three Gourmets gazed with approval upon the following
Smiling and sitting back in the seat of the boiling car Meyer shook all the hands he could reach. A few days before a friend had lent him money enough to buy his car, an overhauled Miller Special. A year ago he rode a few laps as relief driver for...