Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shaggy-haired, 69-year-old Bogeyman Bigelow was a Congregational minister who, after taking over a Cincinnati church in 1896, leased it to a burlesque house, later founded his own "People's Church." In 1917 he was horsewhipped for pacifist preachings. Cincinnati knows him chiefly as a chameleon of...
On her high bridge, Roberts had time to glance aloft, see the sky blotted out by the crest of the wave before it broke over them, hurled men the entire length of the bridge. Small sounds in the Niagara thunder of the blow were the smashing of glass, furniture, superstructure...
Cabin Boy Paul Johnson, who had just emerged from the "glory hole," was swept overboard clutching a shipmate's spectacles. Steward Schwerdtfeger grasped Mrs. William Buckler by one foot just as she was going over the rail. In the ship's hospital Dr. Thomas Fister was sent spinning...
"The whole thing was over in 30 seconds. After that only a dark cloud of smoke was visible. Royal Oak had disappeared, while Repulse listed heavily forward."
Flagship of the British Grand Fleet in 1914 was Jellicoe's Iron Duke. She lay anchored last week in Scapa Flow at almost the exact spot near the Calves (rocks) of Cava where Reuter's ships went down. Four days after Prien's U-boat raid, Nazi...