Word: signalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Reichswehr and police held every important point in the town. A performance of La Tosca was for bidden at the opera house, it being stated that conspirators intended to use the death of the tyrant scene as a signal for an insurrection. Much hostility toward the police was evinced by the crowds...
...cruiser Liberté, was attacked by a huge octopus. The account reads: "The diver, Jean Negri, fought desperately with the monster under water for some time. He was finally able to free one arm and plunge his trident into its body. The octopus held fast. Negri gave the signal to be hauled up. When his companions saw the writhing monster emerge they were panic-stricken, but the plight of their comrade appeared so serious that they went to his aid and cut the brute to pieces with their knives...
...Wyck Brooks, an editor of The Freeman, was awarded The Dial Prize for "the best work of the year in American letters." His essays on Henry James were described as his most signal work for 1923. Two previous awards of this $2,000-prize have gone to Sherwood Anderson and T. S. Eliot...
...last words, the signal for an enthusiastic ovation, were, "Let us keep faith with our dead...
...Haven, Conn., November 22.--A large crowd of undergraduates, headed by cheer leaders and the band marched to the Bowl this afternoon to cheer the team at its final home practice. The first team ran through a last signal drill and a short dummy scrimmage in the following order; left end, Bingham; left tackle, Milstead; left guard, Eckart; center, Lovejoy; right guard, Diller; right tackle, Blair; right end, Luman; quarterback, Richeson; left halfback, Neale; right halfback, Pond; fullback, Mallory...