Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This canvas, valued at a million francs, had been presented to the town of Lyons many years ago by Cardinal Fesch, uncle of Napoleon, and subsequently had disappeared from sight. It was discovered by Mr. Harris and a British associate, Dr. Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey, among a pile of old rubbish in a small room in the Military School at Lyons, where it had lain unnoticed for half a century...
...Wormwood Scrubs Prison, a soot-blackened pile in western London over-looking railway yards and a bleak, 200-acre common, Baron Kylsant and Sir John Simon pondered their next move. A final appeal was possible to Lord Kylsant's peers, the House of Lords, highest British court. On the other hand, by accepting his sentence of one year in jail and serving it meritoriously, Lord Kylsant could win a reduction of two months for "good behavior," might be a free man again as early as next September...
Under People, TIME. Sept. 7, you inform us that cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin offered a prize of 20 pounds sterling to that porter of London's Borough market in Southwark who could run fastest with a pile of half-bushel baskets on his head...
...delegates, expressed satisfaction that Japan would appease the situation. Knowing that his troops were no match for the Japanese, smart Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang did the best thing he could have clone to win world support. He ordered his Manchurian troops to offer no resistance to the Japanese, to pile their arms in depots. From a hospital bed in Peiping where he has been undergoing treatment, he issued a statement...
offered a prize of ?20 to that porter of London's Borough Market in Southwark who could run fastest with a pile of half-bushel baskets on his head. Cinemactor Chaplin once lived in Southwark, had porters for friends...