Word: rounde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the market town of Arundel and up the Hill of Bury toward the ancient round grey towers of Arundel Castle traveled and trudged last week, in their traditional best, 5,000 town and country folk. Some had traveled 70 miles down from London; most had trudged from nearer homes in the West Sussex country which spreads its downs and rivers below high Castle Hill. All had come to be birthday guests of Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, Premier Duke and Earl and Hereditary Marshal & Chief Butler of England, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Norfolk...
...British Empire represents a momentous and astounding political revolution accomplished in perfect amity round a table in London, which is still a source of mystification to our French friends...
...soothingly on the grease-mud as there lurks the skid demon. Press the brake of the foot as you roll round the corners to save the collapse...
...declared the winner by a close decision, was Eligio Sardinias, a young Cuban-born Negro with big round eyes, long arms, an antlike waist and the inadequate nickname of Kid Chocolate. Kid Licorice would suit him better. When he entered the U. S. a few months ago, he had no fame, although in Havana he had won 100 amateur bouts and knocked out 46 of his spidery opponents. In Manhattan his first professional rewards were coffee and frijoles given to him by informal fighting clubs in out of the way places. Now he has more silk shirts than...
...mosquito was Fidel La Barba, one time flyweight (112 lb. or under) champion of the world. A student at Stanford, he wants to go into real estate business. Among books he has read and liked are the Outline of History by H. G. Wells, Round Up by Ring Lardner. Among maga-zines he likes and reads is Variety...