Word: piled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today, however, he will forsake these haunts of the Muses and mingling with the crowd bend his steps toward the flag-decked pile across the Charles
...trial that he had been duped, but it made no difference. He was led out into the sunshine, nonchalantly gallant. A large crowd gathered to see his end and more than 1,000 troops were assembled to do him a last gruesome honor. He was marched to a pile of stones and ordered to stand with his back to it. But this did not suit him and he elected to be shot with his back to a wall...
...little boy jumped with a para- chute made from a tablecloth, felt the parachute give way above him, felt the world come up beneath him, rolled over uninjured. He had landed on a pile of hay. The boy was James De Witt Hill. About 35 years later he jumped from Old Orchard, Me., in an airplane made of wood and wires and steel; felt the airplane give way around him; felt the world coming up beneath him; splashed down into the ocean, disappeared...
...charm could have kept out of all danger of becoming trite or tiresome. Under his pen the story keeps up one's expectant interest although it never becomes absorbing. His chapters often glint with quiet humor as when "Daddy Leroy", and old mill-hand, is perched on a pile of cloth, holding a pistol to his head, and his superiors discuss the pros and cons of suicide with him, while his fellow hands sit by with their fingers in their ears...
...hours, his two dogs watched William Joyce, aged 4, of Scranton, Pa., sinking into a pile of culm (coal refuse). When William was up to his neck in culm, the dogs looked at each other knowingly, scampered away, tugged at a workman's coat. Workman and dogs sped back to the culm. "Take the mud out of my eyes," said William when rescued...