Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again. As the Revolution and counterrevolution roll across the country, the prison becomes a self-governing community: rank counts for nothing, money everything. Soon a miniature city is in full swing, with industries, entertainments, police, prostitution and crime. The German prisoners, with great patience and ingenuity, forge banknotes. Gradually, long after the War is over, the camp disintegrates; our hero makes his precarious way home, nearly three years after the Armistice...
Louis XI was no picture-book king. He had "a long ugly nose . . . a pair of oblique eyes too deeply set, thin lips, a powerful jaw . . . a jutting chin;" was less than middle height, bald, thin-shanked, shabbily dressed. A great talker himself, though direct and blunt, he required others to be the soul of brevity. Like many autocrats, he preferred plain people to the aristocracy. His favorite hat, high-peaked, shapeless, banded with leaden images of saints, was famed. But once at least he ordered a new one. He wrote to his General of Finances: "I have forgotten...
...romantically won his wife with the aid of an elopers' ladder. Called one day for jury duty in Manhattan, he found himself near No. 195 Broadway, then headquarters of WEAF. He walked in, took a voice test, got a job. Fame came quickly. His reporting of the long-drawn 1924, Democratic National Convention in Manhattan established him as most popular U. S. announcer. Soon no football game, world series, horse race, prizefight, inauguration was complete without...
...learned that wild ducks and geese fly about 10,000 miles a season. Long distance champion is the Arctic tern, which wings some 20,000 miles per season, nesting in the Arctic, wintering in the Antarctic. Chief Redington declared that the number of migratory game birds is fast dwindling in the U. S. Every citizen has a right to kill them in season (some states allow 25 such killings a day). Modern hunters use modern mass-destruction methods, such as automatic and repeating shotguns, live decoys, baited ducking grounds. Ducks die by the million from improper refuges like the Bear...
...been that some righteous schoolmate might see and report then. Seldom has this happened for Goucher is a big college [enrolment: 985] in the middle of a busy city. Keeping in stride with other pragmatic women's colleges, last week Acting President* Hans Froelicher announced that as long as smoking did not "interfere with routine class work," or create fire hazards such as in dormitories, henceforth Goucher girls might smoke when, where, and as much as they pleased. Said he: "It was found that enforcement of the rule forbidding the young woman to smoke in public places required snooping...