Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy were larger than those of any other navy in the world. Admiral Hughes well upholds the average, being able to look down upon all men who are only six feet in height. Blue-eyed, ruddy-faced, bushy-mustached, he looks the sea-dog's part, is brave and modest, has been termed a "huge, friendly fire-eater." As Commander of the U. S. S. New York he received the Distinguished Service Medal for "exceptionally meritorious service" with the British Grand Fleet in the North Seas. In 1918 hs became Rear Admiral; in 1925 he was made Commander...
...leaving the country areas for the towns and they want emigrants from England to go out into the back blocks and do all the hard work. "Immigrants are not treated well out there. They are spoken of as 'pommies,' the reference being to their bright cheeks, which look like pomegranates, and 'low-downers.' I would most decidedly advise a man with a family and not much money against going to Australia." Reputedly such frankness has irritated Queen-Empress Mary, and, perhaps as a result, Dame Margaret was reported in despatches to have withdrawn to her estate...
...might tell you," he began, "that our chances don't look very good. I might elaborate on the impressive showing the Princetonian has made in its secret sessions this spring. I might try to prophesy how this game's coming out--in fact I might do a lot of things. But I've got just one thing I want to say to you. And it isn't that our pitchers have got any new shoots which can fool the other guy, or that a last minute shift in the batting order is going to make us into a different team...
...suffer from alcoholic poisoning"--like "to be hanged by the neck until dead", the phrase has an ominous connotation. The sufferer may be blissfully unconscious of his pain. He may shout joyfully--he may even sing; but these external manifestations of an inward laceration mean nothing. No lady will look upon him other than as on one whose punishment is that of the damned and whose torture knows no alleviation. And so, as the damsel said, "He may be boiled to you but to me he's an unfortunate victim of alcoholic poisoning...
Tremont--Beatrice Lillie in "Oh, Please!"--8.15 o'clock--The Hub may look at a peerless peeress...