Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wanderlust cannot be appreciated unless one has a home. The Marines are, by nature of their calling, wanderers. But they have a home; it is Quantico, Va., their great training ground, the place from which they go forth in war and peace to the ends of the round earth. Now it is proposed that the Marines should own their own home...
...cantor of that particular synagog, one Gabriel Alaro, is a handsome man of 30, a widower, twice a father. Gabriel's eyes are "big as baseballs," round and black. Gabriel's voice is sweet and deep. Gabriel's locks are long, angelic...
...exhorted the Sudanese to obey orders, but the Sudanese refused. At this moment the acting Sirdar, Colonel Huddleston, rode up and went forward in front of the British troops to urge sanity on the Sudanese. But the Sudanese merely declined to recognize the Sirdar. Orders were then given to round up the mutineers...
...night in 1886 they were giving Aida at the Rio de Janeiro Opera House. A new conductor had the baton. He showed nervousness; the great house stirred uneasily. He bungled a pianissimo passage, he brought in his strings raggedly; a sinister sibilant flew round the galleries. "Hiss-sss-sss" went the fine senhorinas, "sss-sss-sss" went the fierce senhores. Distraught, unmanned, hearing a crooked death in every venomous 'sss, that new conductor broke his baton over his knee, fled weeping from the house. From his lowly place among the cellos rose up then a young Italian, scuttled...
...bitterly assailed as an "unscrupulous propagandist." He it is who must keep the 30 churches harmoniously in line. Says he to one of the churches: "You must trust the other 29," and it does. He makes the Council's voice to speak, its mimeograph wheels to go round...