Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poison gas. Up in the House of Lords stood bald, stoop-shouldered Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, ardent humanitarian and brother of the bearded Bishop of Exeter. In his hand he held a telegram from Haile Selassie's comely kinky-haired 16-year-old daughter, Princess Sehai. "For seven days without a break," she wrote, "the enemy has been bombing the armies and people of my country, including women and children, with horrible gases. Hundreds of my countrymen are screaming and moaning with pain. Many are unrecognizable since the skin has been burned from their faces." Added Lord Cecil...
...been trying to edge in on the power & glory which rightfully belonged to him. Promptly the 69-year-old onetime country doctor popped out with a "plan of democratic management" for Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. which he said he had been preparing for months. Hereafter, said he, a seven-man board of directors would "assist me in completing the final chapter of the history we are writing for a better day." Furthermore, a national advisory committee chosen by Townsend Clubs would "counsel with me and with the board of directors...
...when reporters understood him to say the Last Trump was at hand. "Let me say that Jesus is not coming in 1936 or 1937 or 1938 or 1939 or 1940 or 1941,:'' Premier Aberhart firmly told newshawks. "Have you got that clear? . . . Now listen carefully. Seven years before the coming of Christ, the raptures shall take place. This will be when the Lord appears in the clouds. The raptures have not taken place...
These and other resounding words were inscribed in cuneiform characters on seven stone tablets, each two feet square, some 2,420 years ago. Lately diggers of University of Chicago's rich Oriental Institute unearthed them at Persepolis, not in the palace but in the ruins of an army garrison where they had been stored. Three of the inscriptions contain matter new to scholars...
...Brazil. Above the Equator the passengers were baptized not by the Sea's "Neptune" but by "Aeolus," god of the winds. One hundred hours out of Friedrichshafen, the von Hindenburg snored over Rio de Janeiro, was warped painfully to the mast at brand new Santa Cruz airdock. Thirty-seven passengers and one German automobile descended...