Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interviewed on her 75th birthday as she sat on a sofa draped with a tiger skin in her pink-walled London apartment, Elinor ("It") Glyn, British novelist who writes nowadays only when she has "passionate thoughts that will help humanity," explained: "I have an immense passion for tigers. When I go to a zoo I have a most peculiar effect on them...
...came shortly afterwards, on December 17, 1830. Wasted to skin & bone, coughing blood, racked with hemorrhoids, the 47-year-old Liberator cried out in his last delirium: "José! Bring the luggage. They do not want us here...
Nerves strung fiddle-tight, emotions running skin-deep, the U. S. watched its 76th Congress open a Great Debate last week. A thousand curious citizens pulled wires to wangle passes to cram into the Senate's gallery of 450 seats. Eighty-three Senators out of 96-a portentous proportion-answered the roll call...
...with the wells sinking two miles deep in California and Louisiana, with rigs floating in barges penetrating the mud of the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, with its 96,612 miles of pipe lines running from Oklahoma to New Jersey and crisscrossing the continent like veins under its skin, with the fields of East or West Texas or central Louisiana calling for supply houses at Fort Worth, Tulsa, Corpus Christi, with the thousands of flares burning the escaping gas, hissing as they burn, lighting up the derricks and stretching out under the wind like yellowish acetylene pennants of flame...
...Whitey's success in the field of propaganda doesn't stop with the gridiron. Why, it was Whitey who landed Dartmouth on the front page of all the nation's papers with the story of Heavenly Gates, the quarterback who left the pig-skin for a religious retreat...