Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom had had any experience in the jungle. Facing death became such a commonplace that it meant little or nothing and often was approached with a fearless joy for the struggle. Picture the author, confronted at night by two gleaming eyes a few yards down the jungle path, and at a loss what to do, breaking into song and seeing the eyes disappear. Song proved to be a boon to the little band of explorers because at another time it saved in all probability the lives of all of them. After being followed for two days by a murderous band...
Recently the newspapers carried a story about a girl in Missouri who won a $1,500 award from a railroad because a brakeman kicked her in the head to remove her from the path of an onrushing train...
...ideal success-story would show President McInnerney setting out on his march to dairy tycoonship along a pretty, rural cow path. But he admits and does not lament the fact that he has never milked a cow, never attempted it. He was raised in Dubuque, went to University of Illinois where he studied pharmacy. For five years he owned and ran a drugstore in Chicago. This he found less to his liking than he had expected and his next experience was the general managership of Siegel, Cooper & Co., Manhattan department store. In 1914 he returned to Chicago, formed Consumers...
...have decided absolutely to place no obstacles in the path of the Republican Government, which, for me, above all is now the Government of Spain. . . . It would be the greatest sacrifice of my life if I should be forced to abandon Spain. It would be very sad if, some day, history does not do me justice...
...when street car No. 56 swung around a curve. At the throttle of No. 56 was buxom Motorwoman Alexandra Semeena, and Alexandra was a caution. Disdaining brakes, she made elderly Reds leap for their lives as she clanged through the streets. Heaven help the pushcart that, dawdled in her path. Last week, a month after the event, Moscow papers reported the end of street...