Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such logic, profoundly philosophical, is unanswerable. Men with the vision to betray superiors who are later ruined and discredited, have not seldom achieved that universal esteem which may soon be the portion of Feng Yu-hsiang...
...that it matters, but please, I didn't wear a "little red cap" at the dedication of Princeton Chapel, nor did I have anything to say in "a squeaky little voice" or otherwise, at the opening of the doors, nor did my face or any other portion of my anatomy "thrust itself between them...
...eyes of the Statesmen-Gourmets were observed to glisten with anticipation. Minister of Agriculture Queuille commented favorably upon both the aroma and the taste of his consomm. Minister of Commerce Bokanowski forked rapidly both saucisses and saucissons. Meanwhile good M. Painlev had consumed a second and then a third portion of the truffled donkey's liver...
...Street of Sin. Basher Bill seizes an egg, bashes it against his own forehead, rips off the shell, swallows the nutritious portion whole. He grabs another, and another,-until he has consumed twelve (12) eggs. The eggs are hardboiled; so is Basher Bill as played by Emil ("Slow Motion") Jannings. Paramount's publicity man swears that Mr. Jannings actually ate those twelve eggs. Well, good for him; for there is little else to egg one on in The Street of Sin. Basher Bill lives in the slums of London with a blonde harlot who loves him. His occasional business...
...communication. The events of the year have awakened public interest to the convenience, safety and advantage of travel through the air. For years the best engineering brains of all countries have been directed to improving the machine, in designs of plane and efficiency of engines. Would that a small portion of the time and money thus spent in developing the machine had been spent in improving our knowledge of the medium in which the machine, like man, must function. The importance of a knowledge of the structure of the air is becoming more evident as long distance flights increase...