Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room at 4:15 a. m., stood over the operator with drawn knife, commanded him to break the captain's orders and send a call for help. It was too late. Dislodged as the gale tossed the ship, the Tzenny Chandris' cargo shifted. She listed crazily, water rose in the hold, the pumps ceased as the freighter foundered. All hands scrambled excitedly off into the dark, cold water...
...Excellency Maxim Litvinoff had already left for Moscow when Messrs Davis, Eden and Delbos brought in their windup-motion. Then up rose Chinese Delegate Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. "Now that the door to conciliation and mediation has been slammed in your face by the latest reply from the Japanese Government," Koo told the Conference, "will you not decide to withhold supplies of war materials and credits to Japan and extend aid to China? It is, in our opinion, the most modest way in which you can fulfill your obligations of helping to check Japanese aggression and uphold treaties...
...hangings parted and a great brown woman emerged-she was the size of Fay Templeton in her Weber & Fields days, and she was even garbed similarly, in a rose satin dress, spangled with sequins, which swept away from her trim ankles. Her face was beautiful, with the rich, ripe beauty of southern darkness, a, deep bronze brown, like her bare arms. . . . She began her strange rites in a 'voice full of shoutin' and moanin' and prayin' and sufferin', a wild, rough Ethiopian voice, harsh and volcanic, released between rouged lips and the whitest of teeth...
...distinguished from measles is scarlet fever, whose rash is bright yellow-red and which gives a strawberry color to the tongue. Scarlet fever rash rarely touches the face. The rash of German measles, a mild disease, is rose-red, or brown...
...Alabama still wants to play in the Rose Bowl. Georgia Tech outplayed the Crimson Tide for three quarters, then four minutes before the game ended, Alabama's Tut Warren caught a forward pass just over the goal line. Score: Alabama 7, Georgia Tech...