Word: rendezvouses
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Having reached that dubious region buried in the gloom beneath the piers and buttresses of Manhattan Bridge the abused seamen dropped anchor in a more dubious appearing rendezvous already filled with many of their fellows. Being likewise thirsty their shadow followed. The newcomers were greeted variously. As they made their...
Harvard and West Point stand at the extremities of the bracket of education. But though these be as other East and West, parodox rules today, not Kipling. And implicit within them is that American homogeneity that makes this rendezvous appeal to the pulses of each. The permanence of the effect...
A week later, Daniel O'Leary, gangster, was spending a night with his mistress. Five men entered their rendezvous. They fired a salvo into the sleeping O'Leary. The woman went away with them.
Since a cloud of witnesses testified (without retraction) that the convent presided over by Mother Superior Concepcion was a rendezvous for so-called "Catholic plotters," the examining official "said sharply to her:
The Phantom Lover. Whether, as written by Georg Kaiser, this might have been a flip and stinging comedy or an exciting allegory illustrated with melancholy symbols, no one could determine. It was clumsily translated and five out of six of its players staggered about the stage with moans and agonies...