Word: restedness
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Eleanor Boardman used to be the Eastman Kodak girl. On the backs of magazines she rested, smiling dreamily, in fields of daisies, wearing a picture hat. You saw her in drug-store windows and on billboards with pine trees or mountain peaks or salt waves, canyons, and, of course, cameras...
After the Spanish War, Mr. Barlow obtained large tracts of land in what later became the heart of Havana. Their title rested upon a 400-year-old Spanish royal grant which bounded them "as far as a dog's bark can be heard." Cuban courts decided he had been...
Last week, in Belgrade, Punica Ratchitch was brought to trial. He pleaded self-defense. The charge was manslaughter. The court was crowded with relatives, friends of the late great Stefan Raditch. Present also was many a Serb. In many a pocket revolvers rested heavily with good cause.
A crowd of subjects jostled happily on the castle terrace, a band blared. In response, the royal family appeared within, forming an animated family portrait framed in an enormous sextuple bay window. They did not bow or speak to the crowd but stood as though unobserved. The King, looking greatly...
The body of sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, preacher of democracy, left last week Peiping's Temple of the Azure Cloud, where it has been for the past four years. Six hundred miles away, a monumental mausoleum was ready to receive it, built by the Nationalist government on a hillside...