Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sight, brought to life by suggestion until it becomes a mood as palpable as a sound, like something howling. This would not be possible if there was any real howling, but the picture is silent. You never see the prisoners tortured; you see them working on the rock-pile and coming in for meals. Best shot: the jailer's birthday party...
Rushing in his car toward Angora the Ghazi saw that it was true. Jutting high above a dusty plain is the ruined citadel of Angora. The "Fish Bazaar," the old section of the town, known to modern Turks as the pest section, straggles down from the summit of the rock to the bleak modern city at its base. Up the rock now, as the Ghazi gazed, leaped crackling flames, lighting up the plain. For hours the Ghazi worked shoulder to shoulder with firemen, policemen, soldiers. The acrid smoke of burning buildings mingled with the smell of burning fish. By morning...
...White Rock Mineral Springs...
Hair bedraggled, shoes unbuttoned, trousers unbelted, wild-eyed in a mauve pajama jacket, Morris Gest, theatre man (The Miracle), arrived in Denver in an automobile. Near Stratton, Col., a Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific train on which he was riding had plunged through a trestle into a flooded creek. Ten persons had drowned. Showman Gest described the accident repeatedly, volubly to newsgatherers : how the cars had rolled over on their sides in the water; how he, asleep, tad had a "rude" awakening; how he grabbed in-the dark, caught his watch-chain hanging from the upper berth, bashed through the window...
Prince Ibrahim of Egypt and a score of guests, including three women, swam about in nightclothes until rescued after the royal yacht Nazperwer (Beautiful Lady) had struck a rock off the foggy Norwegian coast near Trondhjem and sunk in eight minutes...