Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Severn was not quite spared the barbs of the sophisticates who patronized him, but was confided in, trusted, never helped to great success, never permitted to sink to disaster. Later, when the full quality of Keats's genius began to be known, Severn was recognized as a hero, an authority, and the possessor of Keats's most valuable manuscripts and recollections. One day Severn ran away with the reputedly illegitimate daughter of Lord Montgomerie, married her, lived happily ever after...
...bronze heads of wolves and lions, marbles, mosaics, porphyry and precious metals. According to one legend they sank to the bottom of Lake Nemi with all hands aboard except Caligula, who was something of a practical joker. According to another legend they were stripped, allowed to rot and sink by successors to whom even the memory of Caligula was odious. For some 1900 years they remained faintly visible in about 60 feet of water. From the 15th Century on, people tried to raise them, merely succeeded in damaging them with grappling hooks. From the 16th Century on, divers brought...
...dusk the German torpedo planes came in, skimming the grey, becalmed Mediterranean. One torpedo went by. Another hit the U.S.S. Lansdale square amidships, nearly split her in two. The destroyer began to sink...
...Business Transaction." The meaning of these unsolved homicides had begun to sink in last week when Chicago had its first bigtime kidnapping since the days of Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy. One Jack Guzik, a sawed-off gangster known in Chicago journalese as the "business manager" of the Syndicate, disappeared. On the day of his disappearance he was wearing a double-breasted suit of the sharpest cut and the newest hue-Australian kangaroo blue-a red tie, striped shirt, a Chesterfield overcoat...
...help from surgery, might go blind or even die. Then in 1931, Dr. H. C. Naffziger began making temporary windows through foreheads and removing some of the bony framework around the back of eye sockets. This made room within the head for swollen eye muscles, let eyes sink into place. He got good results in over three-quarters of his cases...