Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England to the universities. It makes them dissatisfied with us. They say we are ignorant, but when we become educated they say we are too far advanced and become jealous." To the question, "Do you like the English?" Her Highness replied with complacent mirth: "Englishmen always look as if they needed feeding. Here we like nice fat men." Sir Ghanshyamsinhji, Maharajah...
...Mikoyan, like M. Stalin a Georgian, unlike M. Stalin, a mere pliant boy. As everyone knows, Gregory Zinoviev, the onetime "Right Hand Man" of M. Stalin, was expelled during the summer from the potent Communist Political Bureau. M. Stalin, astute, inflexible, omnipotent, has chosen to dictate alone. Why? The look of this Georgian does not suggest a spirit so awfully and terribly aloof. When his stern jaw relaxes he can and does smile with a kindling light in his eyes. But searing experience has shown the man of steel that Russia must be driven, that only one man can drive...
...bought him, "the cunningest" French poodle puppy, in San Francisco; tearfully ending with her "dear Phil's" heart attack several months ago, his removal to a nursery adjoining her regal bedroom; his brave struggle for health, aided by veterinaries and a full-time nurse; his decline, his last look, his death. . . . The watchers filed behind Mrs. Perry to an ornate marble mausoleum on the Perry estate; bowed their heads during the rich lady's last farewell to her pet poodle. Tips...
...department camp. They were fed up with the lore of weird foods. Horse meat is paler than that of cattle, and sweet. Dog steaks are as tender as lamb chops, but taste flat. Frog legs are like the white part of chicken, would be appetizing save for the dead look of the bones. Rat flesh is like that of tame rabbits. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste. They are tough to chew. Human flesh, when the source is not known, is tender and sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earth worms, washed clean and gently stewed...
...dangerous practice to get into, criminals being what they are. But it is so interesting. . . ." Dr. C. Everett Field, Director of the Radium Institute of New York was receiving newsgatherers at his laboratory. "Here," he said "look at this blue dish. This was a yellowish glass. We used it in our radium work. Gradually the color changed from yellow to this beautiful blue." He showed them other glass that had been rid of ugly colors and rendered clear blue-white. He showed them diamonds turned in a few days from low-priced jaundiced stones to gems of apparently the first...