Word: piles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April 23 issue of TIME I came across some pieces of news about Persia . . . (manifesting) pitiable prejudice against that country, a prejudice which amounts to a pile of hot air pumped into the respected editor of TIME by British interests...
...Chilton, England, the Rev. E. P. Gough, rector of a nearby parish, found a church, buried beneath a rubbish pile. Disregarding the symbolical nature of his discovery, he immediately broadcast news of it together with interesting details. The church had apparently been built in the days of Roman occupancy of Great Britain; in it, it seemed probable, St. Augustine had initiated bearded and barbarous tribesmen into fellowship with a kind, mysterious and splendid God. During the lapse of savage centuries, the little church had become overlaid with dust; when found, it was covered 14 feet deep with the refuse...
...Anti-Catholics, drys, and anti-Tammany men alike cannot but admit that no one of their candidates would have the ghost of a show in a nation-wide contest with Smith, and the policy of backing the winner is claiming more and more of them as the Smith delegates pile up. Hoover, to be sure, is making even greater inroads into the strength of the various "favorite sons" set up by his enemies, but that is all the more reason for the Democrats to imitate his tactics. As for the public, the chances are becoming brighten that for the first...
...strange, as Mr. Edgell notes, that even those most interested in art, who know every painter by his first name, do not stop to think of the artist responsible for some monumental pile. His book will help remedy this condition, and those who have eyes but now see not will find new pleasure even in a sky-scraper...