Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dangerous coup by eloping with the Princess Xene, captive of Richard Coeur de Lion. Xene was the daughter of a deposed Emperor of New Rome (Constantinople), so the son she bore Peire Vidal was a claimant to the throne. In New Rome disaster finally overtook Troubadour Vidal. In the sack of the city by the Crusaders (1204) his wife and son were killed and he lost his reason. Years later, when he was about to be put to death as a heretic, in spite of his madness, one of his oldest flames rescued him, took him home...
...London postman ambled along Charter House Street, turned in at the office of The Diamond Corp. "Good morning," said he to a clerk. "Registered parcel for you. sir. A bit brisk out, sir. Just sign here, if you please, sir." He dipped into his brown canvas sack, passed out a paper package no bigger than a dornick. He touched his cap, ambled out again into Charter House Street. Because the package was addressed personally to Louis Oppenheimer, brother of The Diamond Corp.'s potent Board Chairman Sir Ernest, the clerk took it unopened to his office. Mr. Oppenheimer unwrapped...
Hsinking (Changchun), new capital of Manchukuo, settled down and sobered up after an exhausting fortnight. With great relief Emperor Kang Teh put aside his dragon robes, wandered about his garden in a U. S. sack suit with a green fountain pen protruding from a vest pocket. After playing with his mastiff and smoking a great many cigarets, he sent for and read all the foreign comments he could find, and ate. with little relish, a dinner of sharks' fins, "Buddha's ears" mushrooms, dove's eggs, octopus tentacles and lily roots...
...could see the shimmer of deep drifting snow left by the blizzard. When his radio went dead he had to fight by guesswork along an unfamiliar course. Then a chill fog enveloped him and his plane started to fall. Frantically he tore open its mail compartment, began to dump sack after sack over the side. A farmer near Deshler, Ohio, 50 mi. south of the Chicago-Cleveland airway, heard a plane roar over his roof. He heard a motor cut off. He heard a crash in his wood lot. He found Lieut. Lowry's mangled body in the wreckage...
...merchant tailors gross $80,000,000 annually (1932), they clothe less than one out of every 100 U. S. males. And tailors like Twyeffort and Bell of Manhattan, Dunne of Boston, Stewart of Philadelphia do only a fraction of that business. But the customers for whom they make $120 sack suits (1929 price: $150) are generally to be found sitting at the head of most directors' tables or behind ultra-modest little signs labeled "The President...