Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With such talk on loose tongues, many a correspondent lolling at his ease in Vienna cabled of swords loose in their scabbards; but two alert, able newsgatherers approached the possible theatre of war from opposite sides and saw what mobilization existed...
...Well now, when I saw the Consul's signal of distress I said to myself: 'Here's where I get either a medal or a court martial.' So I leaned over the rail and said, 'Let 'er go, Benny...
...Crystal Palace, near London, in 1859 to honor the memory of Composer George Frederick Handel. An able tenor was to climax the music festival. The audience waited; he did not appear. Suddenly, a voice, clearer and purer than any they had ever heard, swelled through Crystal Palace. They saw a choir boy of 14, Edward Lloyd...
Secret Kept. Two able-bodied young workmen, who were trying out a new Ford, saw the car go over the embankment. The police were informed. The judge and the lawyers at the Sapiro-Ford trial (see p. 23), Mr. Ford's family and intimates, several doctors and employes at the hospital knew that the richest man in the U. S. was as near death as he had ever been. Yet, so well did all these people keep their secret that it was not until three days after the crash that headlines throughout the land screamed: "FORD HURT IN MURDER PLOT...
...That night he lets himself in for an extensive series of sex frustrations culminating in his ejection at dawn from an aristocratic club of masked carnalists. When he returns, his wife relates a dream she has had wherein she was anything but frustrated and in which without remorse, she saw him crucified. Vexed, he spends another evening trying to capture his waking dream, to make it come true, but the trail only leads him to an impersonal female corpse in a hospital cellar. He tells his wife all about that, too. They finally agree that you cannot grasp...