Word: pile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public is fully aware that the King has by his bedside the finest physicians and specialists in the country, but a certain number of them are apparently dissatisfied. Every day sees new additions to the ever-growing pile of bottles, and phials, and philtres which are being stored away unopened in special rooms; for to return the medicines to the donors would hurt their feelings, and the officials of the Palace are above all things thoughtful of others...
...night last week some 2,000 citizens of Mississippi watched a fire. The fuel for the fire consisted of a pile of logs, several cans of gasoline, and a Negro. Brightly burned the gasoline, with orange flame, black smoke. Soon the Negro's flesh became hot, reached what is technically termed the "point of combustion." Then the Negro also burned. Watching citizens heard groans, screams, pleadings. "Get me done with," cried the flaming Negro, "get me done with quick." The fire was out in 15 minutes...
...your issue of Sept. 17 you again pile lie upon lie! You report that when Field Marshal von Mackensen visited the Kaiser at Doom, the latter asked about his prospects for restoration, and that Mackensen replied: "There is not the slightest evidence that the people desire your Majesty's return...
...Russian prisoners, Grischa had had enough of prison camp. True, he had heard that Russia was done for and the War near an end-it was blustery March of 1917-but enough was enough, and he yearned Eastward toward his wife and little girl. His monotonous duty was to pile timber in freight cars bound for the front. At the end of one carload he neatly constructed a cavity for himself, and that night slipped out of the bunk house. Under cover of his comrades' merrymaking he crunched across the snow to the wire enclosure; under cover...
...Such popularity must be preserved," he remarked, pushing aside a pile of telegrams that lay on the table. "Put 'em in that box, Fritz," he continued, to Mr. Frederick Haas, his manager, who had just arrived on the scene...