Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also made a quick trip to the United States Military Academy at West Point. On arrival he was told that century-old tradition permitted him, as a head of state, to make and receive one request during his visit. He asked a pardon for all cadets undergoing punishment for breaches of discipline, and some 80 promptly had their privileges restored. At Hyde Park, where he had Thanksgiving dinner with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, he spied a handsome Persian rug which he had presented to F.D.R. six years ago. Beaming, he got down on his knees, fingered it, and made...
...most tragic occurrence of the campaign windup involved the Liberal Party's ex-candidate himself. Echandia had been making a point of strolling about downtown Bogota unguarded, in silent contrast to Laureano Gómez' self-imposed seclusion in his son-in-law's tightly barred home. On the first day of the general strike he set out accompanied by his brothers, Vicente and Domingo, and 19 Liberal politicians...
...went with him on a cross-country honeymoon tour. Seamans describes the trip through a Nebraska rainstorm: "The windshield was down, the top blew off, and it was like riding in a bathtub. The highest point in the car was the steering wheel...
...madman--plus the involved personal relationships of each, it is difficult to follow. One becomes further confused by the difficult of the play's idea. But at no time is the play dull. Mr. Keith, as Henry IV, acts with brilliant, sometimes incredible, imagination and control. At one point in the play, he held the audience's complete attention for at least fifteen minutes. The Brattle Company, no doubt inspired by working with such an actor, was in fine form. Bryant Halliday, Will West, Jerry, Kilty and a guest actress, Kathryn Eames, were especially good. Robert O'Hearn...
Most of the bells exhibited are from the New Haven Railroad. These are valuable, but from a dollars and cents point of view the lithographs of locomotives would count most; they are the drawings of the engines as they actually appeared, with some in color...