Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then I touched his arm. " 'Don't you think you might rest now, Mr. Roosevelt?' I suggested. "He paused a moment as if in thought. When Mr. Roosevelt was not excited or aroused or happy he was just quiet. He was not a man to look either tired or sad. That was one of the rare occasions when he looked both weary and saddened. And I felt sure then that as his excitement waned the personal injury produced by the desertion of so many men he had counted on weighed heavily on his spirit. He shook...
...murder for robbery. . . "Do not violate the law of Nature if you do not want to be miserable. I remember : it was a night without a moon but stary. I sit alone in the darkness, I was sorry, very sorry. With the face in my hands I began to look at the stars. I feel that my soul wants to go away from my body, and I have to make an effort to keep it in my chest. So, I am the son of Nature, and I am so rich that I do not need money. And for this they...
Monks, nuns, foreign-born prelates disconsolately look for redemption to the special prayer ordained by the indignant Holy See set for Aug. 1 (the festival of "St. Peter-in-chains...
Those who saw Paul Berlenbach win the world's lightheavyweight championship last year from that sly old Irish Reynard, Michael McTigue, were confident that he would not long retain it. He was no boxer, that was plain; his one weapon was a left hook that crippled metaphor, but looked as easy to dodge as a freight train. He was not pretty to look at either, being a somewhat scarred ex-taxi-driver with a thick nose, thick jaw, thick mouth and a pair of cold, slow, brutal eyes. He seemed a fighter without imagination, he ever comes up against...
...Clauson (attorney for the Crown) : "One has only to look into a man's pockets, and if there are profits there, that is enough for the tax gatherer. I do not say that if the pockets be full of stolen spoons one spoon should be taken as a tax on burglary. There is a valid distinction between profits and loot...