Word: sacksful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In this same emotionalized vein the concert proceeded through Russian church music and folk songs. The Cossacks sing either very loudly, with stunning effect, or softly with effect just as stunning. The voices have the mellifluous, full-throated quality peculiar to Russians and so well suited to music in the...
Spasm. Three days later a minor counter-revolutionary spasm occurred in Rio. Disgruntled military police and hungry Communists rioted, seized the central police station. Barricaded behind bean and flour sacks, soldiers, sailors, marines potshot the insurgents. Inside of two hours the uprising was quelled. Casualties: 200 killed and wounded.
Middle Line. The first westbound passengers over this middle line did not, of course, pay for their rides.* Riding on the first plane, followed by two planes with mail, were four distinguished deadheads: Postmaster General Brown; Harris M. Hanshue, president of the line; Earl Wadsworth, superintendent of airmail; Amelia Earhart...
Both boats as usual carried every stitch of canvas they had. Often The baud dipped her rail into the wash, but Bluenose, heavier and longer, stood up. Before long Thebaud pulled away. Her sails were better cut and set and she pulled smoothly into the wind; Bluenose's big...
Thousands of sharp-nosed, furry little animals slept more safely in snug pens throughout the eastern U. S. when, last week, one Alfred Findlay and one John Merritt were caught by police, who believe them the most enterprising and systematic silver fox thieves in the land. They will be charged...