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...first Venezuelan revolt, and destroyed a quarter of the citizens of Caracas and their property in a few moments. In the main plaza, Bolivar found a priest, shouting: "Sodom and Gomorrha! To your knees! . . . God's arm has fallen on your heads in punishment!" Bolivar pushed the monk away, drew his sword and shouted: "Nature has joined forces with tyranny! She is trying to stand in our way. Forward! We will force her to obey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: El Libertador | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...counting on Earl Acker and Al Evarts, up from last year's Freshmen. The third man on this forward trio is at present Bo McMillan. Beyond this, line-ups become too probable to be accurate, but Hodder has lettermen Burgy Ayres, Demi Lloyd, and Caleb Loring, and Sophomores Monk Beebe and Johnny Burton all available for a third line...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Three Good Lines in Prospect as Hockey Season Opens; 1944 Strengthens Squad | 11/27/1941 | See Source »

Outstanding for the Crimson was Bart Harvey and Steve Gifford in the backfield, while Yale's standouts were Brooks Smith and Monk Meyer in backing up the line. Floyd Fay, Blue passing ace, connected for several long passes in the dying minutes of the contest, but they were all to no avail...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: Crimson Jayvees Run Wild Over Blue, 19-0 | 11/22/1941 | See Source »

...circle was shortly joined by Matthew Gregory ("Monk") Lewis, a "boyish-looking man, with large, bulging, curiously flattened eyeballs which projected from his cranium like the eyes of an insect." Lewis was the author of the best-selling shocker, The Monk. So shocked was Byron that he complained that the book was filled with "the philtered ideas of a jaded voluptuary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Dark Tower | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Living quarters in Weld were, in one instance, compared to a monk's cell; lest the prospective occupants of that hall be discouraged, let it be said that a few colorful additions to a room in the way of furniture, will do wonders for even the most ascetic monk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Problems of War Are Summer School Topics | 9/2/1941 | See Source »

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