Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beards Olof Krans painted many a Rousseauesque scene of life in the old colony. Most startling was a group of shawled and coated women huddled about what looked like a guillotine on a platform over a little river. They were the women of Bishop Hill operating a primitive pile driver...
...escaping to Paris: "Barcelona is in the hands of gangs of young boys and girls, armed with rifles and machine guns, whose thirst for blood seems unquenchable. They kill for the mere sake of killing. They break into homes, throw all furniture, books and pictures out of the windows, pile them up and set fire to them. They are animated by a love of destruction and death. The present reign of terror and massacre in Barcelona bears no resemblance to any ordinary conception of revolution or civil war. I was held in jail for three days because they thought...
...caved in. Victor clambered up the collapsing roof, was being submerged when another house boiled up in the flood and he clung to its eaves. He lost his grip and fell, but landed on a part of the roof of the barn, went spinning toward destruction as the wreckage piled up around him. Just as a freight car reared up over his head the pile of wreckage gave way, and he was shot forward with the released water. That sent him into open water, and he was safe. As he climbed to the roof of another dwelling, he made...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Annenberg place at Great Neck, L. L, once the estate of Actor George M. Cohan, teems with in-laws and grandchildren, is "like an old-fashioned Milwaukee home." In his office. Mr. Annenberg smokes cork-tipped Pall Mall cigarets from a loose pile on his desk, apologizes for his occasional profanity, belies his reputation of being a mean, unsociable skinflint. The Annenberg winter home in Miami Beach is gay, but when Mr. Annenberg goes to "Ranch A" (for Annenberg) in Wyoming he prefers to rest in comparative solitude. Sometimes when guests appear he goes away...
...even felt now that Connecticut had broken that New York's bloc of 90 might cast at least half their total for Landon on the first ballot. Even if the Kansan doesn't pile up the necessary 501 votes, when the roll is first called, he said that some doubtful states might change their votes so that more than a majority could be counted for Landon, making a second ballot unnecessary. This is what happened in the 1928 Democratic Convention when Al Smith was nominated...