Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holding them by the tail, you crack them like a whip and their head flies off. But what to do when suddenly confronted by a shark, or barracuda ? Should one set up a tremendous splashing and threshing about, and thus attempt to frighten him off, or should one lie log-still, in the hope that he will merely sniff and go on about his business? One of such opposite courses must be considerably healthier than the other. Seriously, TIME, which...
...Chaco headquarters with her rich Santa Cruz de la Sierra agricultural district. To soften the blow of this news at home, his Foreign Minister Juan Stefanich delivered a three-hour harangue at Asuncion explaining that Paraguay would have "free transit" over the road. Shrieking that this was a lie, the Bolivian Cabinet angrily voted not to name a minister to Asuncion. This passage threw the Paraguayan Army into such a frenzy that they refused to obey Provisional President Franco's order to retreat from the disputed road, threatened a general revolt unless he withdrew the order. With Colonel Franco...
...family room in the Mausoleum, Flo Ziegfeld and Marie Dressier in crypts. Other famed Forest Lawn dead: Lon Chaney, Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, King Gillette, Senator Frank Flint, Edward L. Doheny Jr., Alexander Pantages, Guy Bates Post. Harold Lloyd, Composer Carrie Jacobs Bond and Jess Willard will lie in the Mausoleum some...
...joined the public sands, was passing out little printed cards inviting people to move off the private onto the public part of the beach. He had just handed cards to two pretty young women when he noticed Lawyer Hurley. "I was shocked. I told him he couldn't lie there like that. But he kept lying with his head on the sand looking at the sky. So I called the police." Three policemen marched protesting Lawyer Hurley to the station, booked him on charges of indecent exposure. He was acquitted...
...labor, for some months leader of the Teamsters Union on the whole coast- the Bill Green of the West but an aggressive, two-fisted Bill Green. The Longshoremen and the Teamsters are the two strongest unions west of the Rockies, their leaders the two bitterest enemies. The warehouses, which lie between the docks and the teamsters loading platforms, are their present battleground...