Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Food ran low; the Erma's passengers ate but one meal a day. To cook it, one woman held a Primus stove down on the deck, a second held a pan to the flame. Often the stove bounced and rolled; food and fuel spilled, threatening the boat with fire. Day after day the shivering women read aloud to quiet their shivering children; during the worst of the storms the men on deck sang to reassure them. Finally a U.S. destroyer sighted the dingy sailboat, pulled alongside. Her crew passed down food, cigarets, fuel. The Erma was 100 miles...
...David Low, the London Evening Standard's great cartoonist, last week wired the New York Times his impressions of the "rather inadequate" and "much too small" men in the dock at Nürnberg. He proved that he is also a cartoonist in words...
...first time, the Son of Heaven held a press conference. Strolling the palace grounds, he met (by carefully arranged coincidence) six aging Japanese newsmen who had "covered" the Imperial household for a decade, with never an audience. They bowed low. Asked the Emperor: Did the newsmen have enough to eat? Had they been bombed out? Then, under strict orders to ask no questions and to write no stories, the newsmen bowed again. The press conference was ended...
...rode near and far, high and low, along bypaths and by-ways- for speedily a tale is spun, but with less speed a deed is done- until he came to a wide, open field, a green meadow. And there in the field stood a pillar, and on the pillar these words were written : 'Whosoever goes from this pillar on the road straight before him will be cold and hungry. Whosoever goes to the right side will be safe and sound, but his horse will be killed.'" What happened when Prince Ivan turned to the right, his adventures with...
...Regency costume piece containing all the time-tested materials: a gypsy fortuneteller; a scowling, black-browed villain; a gushy diary kept by a doe-eyed girl named Clarissa who munches candied violets; a wavy-haired hero with beautiful strong teeth; a fire-breathing adventuress who dotes on discord and low-cut gowns...