Word: refugees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For, unlike the publicity-mad deities apotheosized nowadays by ogling mayors at all-American beauty contests, Miss Anna Willess Williams sought to keep it a secret when she posed for Engraver George Morgan and let him affix her profile as Goddess of Liberty to the silver dollars issued by the...
It was not reported whether the "No climbing" placard was due to the Tibetans' fear of "the hairy men," malignant creatures who they believe once lurked high up on Everest, descending at times on the villages to wreak havoc, steal women and yaks, slaughter men; or whether the lamas, who...
The 77-year-old "Father of the U-Boats" is ordinarily content to recline at ease on one of the extreme Fascist benches in the Reichstag. There he is sometimes observed to nod. More often he strokes and fondles his forked beard, remembering, no doubt, how he was forced to...
The obtrusion of these two dead women upon Poe's subliminal nature is seen in the self-frustration of incipient amours before his marriage with a "consumptive angel" of 13, Virginia Clemm. She afforded him a public and private refuge from erotic impulses that he could not consummate. He...
This pitiful, crazy world lasted eleven years, until Virginia died. Poe then rushed from one "soulful" woman to another, vainly seeking fresh refuge. He soon died insane, bigamously engaged but still carnally innocent. Convulsive fits of drinking throughout his life had been not a cause but a secondary symptom of...