Word: pile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Montpelier, Va., one Farmer Terrell put a hive of bees on a pile of hen's eggs interspersed with flannel strips. When the eggs hatched, Farmer Terrell whisked the bees away lest they sting his chicks...
...sight, brought to life by suggestion until it becomes a mood as palpable as a sound, like something howling. This would not be possible if there was any real howling, but the picture is silent. You never see the prisoners tortured; you see them working on the rock-pile and coming in for meals. Best shot: the jailer's birthday party...
With the sunset gone and darkness settling down upon Bury Hill, the master of Arundel Castle had still to set the final signal of his coming of age. Just outside the castle grounds at a bald spot on the hill there towered 40 feet into the night a pile of 3,000 faggots cut from Arundel copses, woodsmen had guarded the pile from pranksters and now watched with relief their master approach and throw the flaming torch to set the fire off. Yellow tongues licked up the oil and shot toward the dark sky. Soon in all the seven counties...
...economist he is simply?well, he isn't. Life insurance agents have not added the 100 billionth part of one cent to the wealth of the U. S. What they have done is simply to gather up, at enormous expense, the tokens of wealth created by others, pile it up in a heap, dole out small portions of the total to their subscribers and let the surplus accumulate. W. BLENKO...
Five centuries ago, when Church was State and monkhood was in flower, Joan of Arc with shaven head prayed on a pile of faggots in Rouen, while Warwick's English soldiers set the pyre alight, and the crafty-eyed Bishop of Beauvais, "Unjust Judge Cauchon," twisted the amethyst ring on his finger and watched...