Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wearisome week of finals to be followed by the present week of worries, the worst phases of the war on the River front yet to be encountered. Heavy fog prevailed over Baker in many quarters for most of the period and continued overcast is now freely predicted until the spell is broken by the official reports due in a week...
...called a gypsy for his capaciousness. He divided his time (when he was not shooting people) between his mother, his beautiful Japanese wife, his many sweethearts. A real mujeriego (wolf), it took him only a few days to bring any woman under the spell of his green eyes. For fun he liked to shoot at the jars carried on the lovely heads of Sinaloa maidens, sportively drenching them with water. Only once did he ever miss. He killed a girl instead of hitting the daisy she was putting in her hair. El Gitano wept...
...occasions', the aftermath "looked like beef day at an Injun agency." A bad man was a curly wolf, a bandido, cat-eyed, or just a plain killer. Sometimes a curly wolf could stay on the dodge, among the willows, or lookin' over his shoulder for quite a spell. But once caught, his fate was sealed. With a rope around his neck he was hung up to dry, or exalted...
...most lately been slanders and abused by Mr. Wellser's name-calling We're tempted to spell that Willieke after Len Pesses was termed ""Peese and Dave Teeter "Tester...
...canvas is broad, shifting from Chopin's native Poland to Paris or to George Sand's island retreat at Minorca, and finally to the various capitals of Europe, when the fever-racked young composer breaks the hypnotic spell cast over him by the iron-willed, amorous Sand and sets out on a suicidal concert tour to raise money to help his people in an uprising against the Czar. Paraded across the background in a rather ludicrous attempt at historical realism are such figures as De Musset, Balzac, Pagnanini, and Franz Liszt...