Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally Executive Officer Arthur F. Anders, shot through the throat and unable to speak, scrawled the order to abandon ship on the bulkhead. While the crew and refugee passengers, many of them wounded, were being taken ashore in small boats, the planes machine-gunned them, then veered off to bomb three Standard Oil tankers. The refugees, fearful of more attacks, lay freezing in the muck & reeds of the river bank when Japanese motorboats appeared, fired a couple of belts of machine gun bullets into the Panay, boarded her and finally left her to sink. Two hours and 20 minutes after...
...secret terror has long been far more nerve-racking than Moscow's public trials, and the 20th anniversary fusillade of eight Old Bolsheviks grimly capped the climax. The dead, all of whom according to the Secret Police confessed to "terroristic activities" and "systematic espionage," are in approximate order of importance...
Prior of the community of the Order of Servants of Mary (Servites), which conducts Our Lady of Sorrows, a monastery and two parochial schools, is Very Rev. James R. Keane, 35. Asked last week to account for the religious fervor which not only fills his church (capacity 1,1001 but lines up the faithful in queues outside, Father Keane replied: "It's the Blessed Virgin." From approved Catholic sources, Father Keane compiled a novena service for Our Sorrowful Mother, which involves congregational singing, congregational prayers and a Via Matris (Way of the Mother)-in which the worshipers traverse...
Charles Atlas, mail-order musclebuilder who admits that he is the "World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" and poses for pictures in a simple leopard-skin loincloth (TIME, Feb. 10, 1936), inserted the following advertisement in the New York Times: "LIVE LEOPARD CUB WANTED; coat perfectly spotted. . . ." Explanation: Mr. Atlas was dissatisfied with his current pelt because it was irregularly marked...
Once a year U. S. males usually buy a suit (brown, grey or blue), a pair of shoes (brown or black), and a hat (brown or grey). Their typical order is, "Just like the one I got on." So by and large go Fashions...