Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Giacomo de Martino, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., peered out of his spectacles last week and saw the eternal city. He was home to consult with his master Mussolini and Finance Minister Volpi before returning to the U. S. to renew negotiations for the funding of Italy's debt...
Spitsbergen* was discovered by the Vikings in 1194 and, in the 17th Century, owing to a lucrative whale fishing, its sovereignty was disputed by Norway, the Netherlands, Britain. The next century saw the end of whaling with a consequent lack of political interest. During the latter part of the last century, however, the question of sovereignty was again raised by Norway, Russia and The Netherlands, this time owing to the discovery of coal; and when in 1905 whaling was revived, the question became still more important. The matter, however, was not settled until 1920 when the Supreme War Council...
Once there was a riding school in Salzburg, Austria. Max Reinhardt, whose castle-Leopoldskron-overlooks the crenelated streets of the old cathedral town, sent some weeks ago an army of mercenaries against the riding school with billhook, adz, hammer, saw. They tore out the stalls, put in a pipe organ. A choir loft went where the bins had been; the walls, which still preserved the smell of saddle-soap, disinfectant and horse-manure, were transformed into cathedral columns; the tanbark became an amphitheatre for the quality. There, last week, gathered a number of deposed princes, English lords and their ladies...
...love more delightful, then, in the old days when baths were unknown, when 'sweet breath' in a woman was so rare as to be sung by poets and the reek of stale sweat was barely stifled by a strong perfume? John Donne wrote verses to the flea he saw nestling in his lady's bosom. There is scarcely a fine gentleman today who could face the prospect of making love to one of the fine ladies of the past six or seven hundred years in Europe. ... I do not believe in the theory that the rougher our physique the more...
...ever roared louder than the record crowd that traveled from far and wide to see the match at Taunton. "Hurrah," they yelled. "Hip, hip, hooray," they cheered. "For he's a jolly good fellow," they sang as they flocked on to the field, crowded the embarrassed cricketer, saw him drink a goblet of champagne...