Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calabria was "the Land of the Sybarites," citizens who inhabited the metropolis of Sibaris and were accused by the conquering Romans of sleeping upon rose leaves. Today its stupid people toil in almost feudal servitude upon lands chiefly owned by the Italian nobility. Murders are almost twice as common as in Sicily and thefts more frequent than in Sardinia...
Score Harvard 1931, 23; St. George's, 13. Goals from floor, Dutton 5, Johnson 4, Breasted 3, Farrell, Foshay, Dean, Roby, Goals from fouls, Roberts 3, Johnson. Referee, Swaffield. Time-keeper, Rose. Time, four eight minute quarters...
...moment later Dr. Guerrero, cowed trifler with gentlemen's agreements, rose and in a scarcely audible voice withdrew his resolution...
Mayors. Before a banquet audience of 559 Alsace-Lorraine mayors, M. Poincaré rose up to speak, in Strasbourg. He who can be inflexible and glacial was now charming, and soon forensically vivid. Raising his glass in a preliminary toast, he cried: "I drink to the Alsace that is passionately, invincibly French...
Quaint, but probably constructed within the last millenium, the bogus "tomb" was an enclosure whose walls marked the outline of a supposedly buried female of gigantic stature. At the head was a raised mound. Midway in the enclosure rose a small whitewashed dome, protecting from the elements a mystic black stone, El Surrah...