Word: lions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Franqui the highest decoration in the gift of the Belgian Crown-the Order of Leopold. Twinkling it dangled, glittered: a gold edged white enamel cross suspended from a royal crown and resting on a green laurel and oak wreath, at the centre on a black field the golden lion of Belgium, below the motto L'Union Fait La Force. . . . King Albert of the Belgians stepped back from decorating M. Franqui. All the world knows that it was M. Franqui who negotiated the $100,000 000 loan which stabilized the Belgian franc (TIME, Nov. 8). Therefore King Albert warmly eulogized...
Premier Mussolini looks with a jealous eye at certain portions of the Turkish coast, and is likely to pass from longing to action, if the British Lion has been persuaded into noninterference. An understanding between Soviet Russia and Turkey, judiciously noised in Europe, might well halt the Dictator, no fool...
...Lion -Tamer-Philosophy of what, when and why a lion will scratch. Thin...
...Paderewski's has been the most phenomenal, many people recall when Josef Hofmann, aged 11, his feet barely touching the pedals, was the U. S. musical sensation of the day (1887). Compelled by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children to withdraw, he studied under Anton Rubinstein, "lion with the velvet paw." His playing is noted for its rare melodious and technically flawless musicianship...
...note that suggested the picture, for why the painted traveler, asleep under the moon with her mandolin should be a "Bohemian" is hard to say. Her mandolin is quiet. All around her, upon the desert and upon her limbs, disposed in sleep, the moon bends its light, and a lion (come down from a hill colder and stonier than the desert) stands with a black shadow on its face, solitary, looking at the traveler with wild, tender eyes...