Word: mortale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working capital from people who wanted things wheedled out of Carol II, later was reported branching out into Bucharest real estate, finally to have large holdings in Rumania's key industries, especially those to which the Government can throw contracts. Mme Lupescu for years was in mortal terror of assassination by Rumania's anti-Semitic Iron Guard, more recently has been famed as its "largest contributor." Last week this able junk-dealer's daughter seemed on the point of realizing a majestic ambition: a second Nahlin cruise, this time with the world's tabloids headlining...
...seven daughters of Atlas and Pleïone. According to one Greek myth, the seven sisters were pursued so ardently by Hunter Orion that Zeus changed them into a constellation of stars, the Pleiades. One of the seven is dim because of mourning for a sister who married a mortal...
...last sneaked them by a waiter (Alexander Asro) who has been promised a part in their show, Mr. Loeb, after the most voracious eating scene since Mclntyre & Heath in The Ham Tree, amiably suggests that a small part be written in for the chef. In addition to the mortal drolleries of these accomplished comedians, a flanking barrage of laughs is provided by the continual reappearance of a man from the We Never Sleep Collection Agency who is trying to repossess a typewriter, an elk's head which the director loyally refuses to pawn and two stuffed owls. There...
...England had no title at all but was plain Mr. Frank Seaman Dymoke of Scrivelsby Court, who has the hereditary right of being King's Champion. Mr. Dymoke's ancestors were supposed to ride in full armor into Westminster Hall, fling down a gantlet and challenge to mortal combat any who doubted the right to the throne of the newly crowned King...
...mortal hour glass drops through its bend, Into a shallow grave at His command...