Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexico City, in the high noon of night, sharp, strong shocks shook the earth. Husbands and wives bounded out of bed, bounced their offspring out of bed, fled into the streets clad in night attire. In the middle of the streets the frightened dwellers sank to their knees, prayed for protection against the underground commotion. No damage was reported...
...strong force of Green Police (German) and some French civilians were the only onlookers. Suddenly a sharp command broke the mortuary silence. The scene abruptly became charged with the tension of things about to happen. There was a snap, much shuffling and slapping as rifles came to a general salute. Then silence. General Guilleaume, commanding the French troops in the Ruhr area, had appeared on the steps of his headquarters. After reviewing the assembled troops, the General turned toward the building out of which he had come, stood at attention with the troops as honors were paid to the Tricolor...
Beside Sir William Orpen, R.A., Paddy's pig is a Spaniard. Though he has had no old ones, this is a book about his young days, before they shot to kill in Dublin and before England knighted Orpen for mocking some of her greatest lords in sharp colors with an impish brush. It was a time of talent in Dublin, with George Moore mooning about, John M. Synge writing his plays, James Stephens his poetry, quiet young James Joyce his sketches and energetic Sir Hugh Lane slaving to make Dublin a European Art centre...
...Lord, whom ye seek, shall come suddenly to his temple, said that sharp little prophet, Malachi. Had any seeker for the Lord pushed his way through the crowd of 8,000-odd witnesses and entered an uptown church in Manhattan, last week, he would have found refreshments in the basement and cinemas on the roof and a trick pony which told fortunes with stamping hoof and twitching ear-all for a small admission fee that the public gladly paid. Such were the festivities that followed, last week, the breaking of the ground for the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple, organized...
...technique, the exact opposite of Jenufa (TIME, Dec. 15), his first opera, written 25 years ago. Jenufa was realism-a Czech Wirklichkeit; this work is phantasy. It tells the story of a fox-no histrionic creature, in whose caperings those of humanity are derisively reflected, but a sharp red beast out of the fen. Captured by a woodcutter, he bites a baby, kills a cock, runs away to the woods again. Meanwhile, one Terynka-a girl as pretty, wild, red, sly', as the little fox-has been misled by a rogue who, meeting the fox in the woods, destroys...