Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavy scowl have sometimes been called the typical externals of President Plutarco Elias Calles. The fact that he once publicly alluded to "the grunts of the Pope" caused some to fear that his mind might resemble his fists. Last week such mistaken impressions were given the lie when Senor Calles proved himself not only supple of body but adept at mellow geniality. Scene: the $375,000 private train of the President of Mexico which puffed all week, from one hospitable ranch in northern Mexican states to another. On board were the new U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow...
...Highness' roadster. Reputedly "Prince" Nicholas seized the protesting man by the collar, lifted him into his own automobile and sped to the police station, where he left his prisoner." Persons who recall the bantamweight proportions and receding chin of Prince Nicholas, 24, think that this story is a lie...
...will take charge of the combined parties. The party will climb many interesting mountains, among which are six Alpine peaks, including the Matterhorn, where the party will spend three days. On August 10 the party will visit Mr. Vesuvius, and from there will go to the Balearic Islands which lie out of the beaten tourist track and especially interesting for their wave worn coast...
...cold rooms, life trickled on in Avarice House. Emily would walk through the halls counting the furniture that would be hers, when her mother died. Mrs. Fletcher would tighten her lips and help the cook to scrub the floors and bake the bread. The old invalid would lie upstairs, her mind full of a thin despair and a narrow, terrible enmity. At last, one afternoon, Emily came in to find her grandmother dead. Whether her mother had found the medicine which Mrs. Elliot had expected her to provide, could not be told. Perhaps she had discovered some drug to still...
...Peters '13, Assistant Curator of Ornithology at the University, and Edward Bangs '21, are tomorrow starting on an ornithological expedition to the Corn Islands, which lie off the coast of Honduras, and have not previously been surveyed for an analysis of their bird life...