Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amusing incident in connection with the discovery of the records was the finding of a cigar among the pile of papers. Close by was a note bearing the inscription, "This was the last cigar which Edwin Booth ever held in his mouth." The teeth marks were still apparent, for, though forbidden by his doctors to smoke, the dying actor was not to be denied the pleasure of keeping the cigar in his mouth...
...front of the freight train, sprint that block, snatch a kiss and then catch the rear end of the train. Used to do it all the time but I had to move fast. I met Sarah at a train wreck. I crawled out from underneath a pile of tank cars and saw her when she walked down to look at the wreck...
...three other United employes went along for a "pleasure ride." Twenty-five minutes later witnesses heard the motor falter overhead, saw a great fountain of flame in the darkness as the monoplane lunged into a knoll. By the time they reached the wreckage, little was left but a smoldering pile of twisted metal and four bodies burned almost beyond identification...
...TIME, Sept. 30), the New York Herald Tribune sent a newshawk to listen to Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, publisher of Liberty, True Story, Physical Culture. Trying to look like the vibrant male who had himself photographed in "classical poses" in the 1890's, Publisher Macfadden fingered a little pile of tooth picks on his desk. "I always say," he glowed, "that I'm 67 years old and 25 years young. ... I only eat when I'm hungry : sometimes one, sometimes two meals a day. ... I can solve any problem when I fast...
...period, and those living far away must leave their happy firesides on New Year's Day. Of course Dean's Listers arrange their own calendars. But even their stolen bliss is soured a little when they compare their indolence to the industry of companions, and think of the accumulating pile of work...