Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death. Into this he poured enthusiasm, time and money. He built it up to a point of great usefulness and efficiency. Then, when he was taking his own flying tests at Huntington, L. I., in 1917, his machine crashed and he was terribly injured. His recovery was uncertain and slow; but he rallied, and, with heroic persistence, went on with his advisory work and interest through the War. He was awarded the Navy Cross...
Gladstone, is the subject of the above discourse, but created a precedent of which Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill was not slow to take advantage...
...strange career: in politics a swift climax and a slow diminuendo; in religion a growing autserity; and a sudden termination. His invalid wife sent his chauffeur to call him from his rest and found him resting forever, stricken in an afternoon nap by the bursting of a blood-vessel in his brain as he was preparing to launch on another crusade for Fundamentalism against Evolution, dead on the scene of his last combat, at Dayton, with his last great speech unmade...
...Verdi's Aida was presented, with Marie Rappold as Aida, Tenor Bernardo de Muro (TIME, June 1) as Radames, in the first of a series of open air concerts to be given by the Manhattan Opera Company. Priests in flowing diapers, soldiers in black and gold, caparisoned camels, slow-stepping horses, passed with solemn unreality across the shallow scaffolding. Critics and adults cheered; the sight intrigued them; the music pleased their ears; but still the children murmured. "Where," they asked, "are the creatures which the producers assured us would take an important part in this spectacle of vocal pantalooning...
...certain medieval conjecturers, issued in the form of a woman's body with a rat's head from the grave of the stillborn Antichrist; scientists have lately suggested that it is bred from putrid fish. Rising out of the East, it has crept down the centuries, a slow, fatal smoke, eating in secret. When Godfrey de Bouillon rode against the Paladin in the 11th Century, it withered the flesh of his captains under their painted armor, followed their retreating banners into Europe. Contagious, it is never hereditary...