Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sandino Described. "His regular, curved eyebrows are arched high above liquid black eyes without visible pupils. His eyes are of remarkable mobility and refraction to light-quick, intense eyes. ... He is short, not more than five feet five. When I saw him he was dressed in a uniform of dark brown with almost black puttees, immaculately polished; a silk red-and-black handkerchief knotted about his throat; and a broad-brimmed Texas Stetson hat, pulled low over his forehead and pinched shovel-shaped. Occasionally, as we conversed, he shoved his sombrero to the back of his head and hitched...
There at the State Theatre they saw a rollicking performance of Peer Gynt (1867), the play which takes its name from a hero who typifies the convivial weaknesses which Ibsen thought that he detected in many of his countrymen...
...saw Capt. Hinchliffe and Miss Mackay take off from Cranwell Airdrome, England, for the War veteran had told only two friends he was going and Miss Mackay had promised her family she would not. None is known to have seen them once they got beyond the Irish coast. A crowd of 5,000 stood all night at Mitchell Field, Long Island, waiting for them. But they never came...
...Midsummer-Night's Dream actually put me in a dream in which I saw Oberon, Titania and the fairies. I heard a lot of pizzicat in the Scheherazade. The first and middle part made me think of caramel sauce, thick and gummy!" (aged...
...weeks the chosen wheat of California saw the light of twelve argon-filled lamps, 300-candlepower each. Touched by no sun's ray, rooted in no soil, the wheat grew and flourished, drawing sustenance from jars of water in which the necessary chemical elements were dissolved. Although sun was excluded from the green house, the sun rays which contribute to plant growth were present in the electric light rays...