Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plump and pink Queen Wilhelmina, whose nose grew red as she went sleigh-riding in Switzerland last week, pronounced a solemn Speech from the Throne before she left The Hague. Mindful of her Dutch East Indies, in which live 60,000,000 of Her Majesty's 69,000,000 subjects, she gave them a new and more dignified name: Netherlands India...
...prepared to die for his country," witheringly retorted Defense Minister Deckers, "is not fit to live...
...experimental station. "Iron Man" Calles built his rural retreat five years ago when his first wife, by whom he had nine children, died. At Santa Barbara hacienda last November his beauteous young second wife, by whom he had two children, died. He has not been able to live there since...
...Tweedledum & Tweedledee recite their poem. The Mouse, the White Rabbit, the March Hare, the Gryphon, the Duchess (''Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes")-all appear in scenes which occur and vanish incredibly. The Duchess' squealing baby actually turns into a live pig in Alice's arms. Actress Le Gallienne as the White Queen flies giddily about through the air. It is impossible to praise the performers singly. As the Dodo says: "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes...
...that he fashioned into two abstract female figures, known as the Twin Peaks. With these he returned to California, blandly expecting San Franciscans to put up $5,000 more to bring his colossus, sight unseen, across the Atlantic and the continent. When this was not forthcoming he withdrew to live apart, sleeping in his clothes, munching nuts in silence. Only two Californians, Glenn Wessels and Sidney Joseph, have actually seen the completed statue. It is a standing St. Francis, with head bowed and face in the deep shadow of a cowl. Friends of the sculptor busily circulate the rumor that...