Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Father to his side, But Mrs. had her mind quite set; Before shed take this, Russian, bride She first must learn her etiquette. The four are now Southampton-bound, Where live most all the idle rich, On Long, not Coney, Island Sound, And there, there dwelt the Jealous Witch...
...Post-War Turkey does not em brace those large non-Turkish areas* in which the shortsighted Sultanate shed so much blood to put down the revolts of subject peoples...
...village of Jolo on the island of Sulu in the territory of the Philippines. Two hundred Moros, led by Datu Tahil and his wife, Princess Tarhata Kiram, who is daughter of the Sultan of Sulu and a onetime University of Illinois coed, vexed the constabulary. Not wishing to shed the blood of her people, Princess Tarhata set forth last week to talk peace with Governor General Leonard Wood at Manila, to. ask him for a Moro governor for the island of Sulu...
...been so; it was so when I was a boy; it is so still. Sometimes I think it is even worse now than was the case 50 years ago. I refer to such things as leaving wagons and farm machinery out in the fields or outside the barn or shed in all kinds of weather, permitting window panes to be missing, doors and gates off the hinges, fences out of order, piles of wood, lumber and stones around the buildings where they ought not to be; stumps and stones in a tillable field when they might be removed; piles...
...been caught in the freeze. From Detour to the "Soo" they stretched in long file, like sausages linked out over a gutter of lard. Reefered sailors dog-trotted up and down the long iron decks; flapped their cold arms against their bodies, like turkeys trying to fly to a shed roof; dared not pull off their mittens to blow their noses. There was wind and snow. Men hunched up their shoulders and pulled their necks into sweater collars. Like horses miserable in a gale, they turned their backs to the blowing...