Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cordoba Saw City...
...another Spaniard, Cordoba, touched the east coast of Yucatan, near Cape Catoche and Mujeres Island and saw "a large town standing back from the coast about two leagues . . .and . . idols. . .nearly all of them with figures of tall women, so that we called the place the Punta de Mugeres" (Women's Point). Juan de Grijalva a year later sailed from Cuba to the Island of Cozumel. After claiming that land for his sovereign with the usual blithe arrogance of his age, Grijalva crossed to the visible eastern shore of Yucatan, where his historian describes sighting "three large towns separated from...
...Welfare Island (off Manhattan), one Rev. Joseph J. McGowan saw a victim of sleeping sickness, one Amiel Schul, jump into the East River. The priest gave his spectacles to a young man who volunteered to guard them, tore off his overcoat, leaped into the water, saved the life of the gurgitating Schul. On shore, surrounded by congratulators, he looked around for his glasses. They had been stolen...
Quietly through his pince-nez Mr. Rosenwald looked at his associates. They saw a gentle, dignified man, oval of face, high of brow, thoughtful of eye, pleasant of lips-lips which by a phrase had often given millions in thoughtful charity. They were to hear those lips make as fair a proposition as ever was laid before business...
...found the crater of Vesuvius swarming with billions of ladybugs. . . . I was taken for a Frenchman in Damascus and bombarded with rotten fruit . . . . No wonder! Near there I saw 300 Senegalese soldiers riding along on camels and lashing at the faces of passing Syrians with long whips. A fine way to pacify them! . . . I visited Enrico Caruso's tomb while in Italy, and was surprised to find his perfectly embalmed corpse lying in a glass sarcophagus, clad in evening clothes. . . . He almost appeared alive. . . The attendant who raised the American flag which covered the sarcophagus demanded one lira...