Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Viscount Lascelles penned a note to the Irish Free State expressing deep "regret if the visit to the Free State has . . . caused suffering to anyone in Ireland and hope that some way will be found whereby no vindictive action will be taken against the suspected and misguided men who might have considered that their visit has any political significance." Thereafter Princess Mary & husband were unmolested in Ireland. But no observer could say that British royalty had received a cordial greeting...
...editors feared that within a few minutes most of them might be out of jobs. They had heard rumors that Signor Mus- solini proposed to merge all Italian newspapers into a single, syndicated super-news organ, edited by the Dictator's brother, pudgy, tortoise-spectacled Arnaldo Mussolini, who carries on the Mussolini family newspaper Il Popolo d' Italia (The People of Italy) at Milan. As the tall clock in II Capo's antechamber ticked ominously, the nervous editors dropped their voices to whisper pitch...
...cried, "Earthquake! Earthquake!" Then they hopped and bolted out the door like prairie gophers. Late escapers said that before they got out the huge crystal chandelier of the Chamber was swinging through an arc of 30 degrees. Had it dragged down the roof and fallen, Mexico's Congress might have been squashed at a single blow. Instead the Earth trembled very gently from 9 p. m. until 3½ minutes past, then settled down for the night. Though the tremors shook nine Mexican states only three deaths were reported and property damage was not great. At the famed seaport...
Life Span. In 1840 a person aged 50 might have expected to live to be 70. In spite of decreased infant mortality, public hygiene and medical skill, a person now 50 can expect to live only until he is 71. (Louis Israel Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance statistician...
...horse is mature at five years and lives five times that stretch, to 25 years. A man is mature at 18 and should live five times as long, until 90. All men might succeed in doing that if they lived hygienically and wore light clothing. (Gerald B. Webb of Colorado Springs, Colo...