Word: skirting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Banks it does one of three things. It either drifts off towards the East where it is destroyed by the Gulf Stream or drifts aground, if it is a particularly large berg, on the Banks themselves, where it is pounded to pieces by the waves. Often a berg will skirt the Banks and drift southward into the Transatlantic shipping lanes where it becomes a menace to liners and merchantmen, and provides work for the Ice Patrol...
...Europa ran into an inky fog over the North Sea, turned back, tried to skirt the fog; failed; came down near Bremen, Germany, slightly damaged. The pilots said that attempting navigation through the fog would have been suicide...
...Skirt...
...Paris, one Renée Valette, 18, leaped from the Eiffel Tower to die, as many another had done successfully. After twirling down 35 feet, her skirt caught on a projection, where she dangled until workmen, scolding, hauled her to security...
...successfully rallied the faithful to combat feminism. They remembered not the benevolent attitude toward women-kind of Tamburlaine the Great. He, magnanimous, referred to his chief wife as "The Honorable Great Lady." When she entered a state apartment 15 ladies-in-waiting held up the perimeter of her enormous skirt of silk and cloth of gold to enable her to walk. Three more attendants steadied by silken cords her towering headdress, which began with a wealth of black hair, rose like an immense extinguisher bestudded with gems, and was surmounted by a pretty little gold castle from which sprouted...