Word: rakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bear delay with equanimity, Major General Robert Lee Howze, president of the Court could not. He is a disciplinarian of the first water. Way back in '91 he got the Congressional Medal of Honor for licking a crowd of Sioux in South Dakota. This week he proceeded to rake the counsel over the coals. The Trial Judge Advocates explained that they had not known until the day before what witnesses the defense wished to call...
What are those blue sparks under the engine's front truck? What whistle is this that hoots in the cab? The engineer does not stir, the tipsy fireman cannot hear above his clanking rake and the ' shattering roar of the coal car. The whistle in the cab changes its note...
...Thaw, it is true, had done little to command newspaper attention beyond escorting a young woman to a cabaret-a procedure technically innocent. But out of the sinister personality of the aging rake, the Mirror's editors drew material for a startling story...
...married. Her husband, just twice her age, was Dr. Canning Woodhull, by name. He came of an eminent family. He was a gay rake. He was cruel. To them was born a child. It was subnormal...
...Sargent's famed Werthheimer portraits. There was Munning's picture of the Prince of Wales on Forest Witch, his graceful chestnut mare. There was Sir James J. Shannon's portrait of the Princess Patricia, loaned by the Duke of Connaught. There were two Hogarths from The Rake's Progress series, two portraits by Reynolds, a romantic landscape by Gainsborough, a liberal representation of other 18th Century painters...