Word: sprigs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying comparatively comic snitches here and there, Author Wallace's sprig of grue was sufficiently funny, novel and grisly to provoke the intended reactions among Manhattan susceptibles. In it, moreover, Nina Gore, daughter of blind onetime (1907-12) U. S. Senator from Oklahoma Thomas Pryor Gore, made a one-line stage debut; Flora Sheffield exhibited a girlish physique as the heroine...
...trust the American Ambassador is bearing a sprig of olive branch in his mouth, and has come back to us in the guise of a dove rather than that of an eagle...
...Before she was obliterated?there was no more of her than the veil?she placed in my hand a sprig of heather...
Pause. Then slowly, gravely Sir James drew a sprig of heather from his buttonhole and held...
There are 30 obstacles in the Grand National-streams, fences, dry ditches, wet ditches, walls, hurdles, ditches and fences combined. Only one horse fell at the first jump. At the fourth jump Sprig turned a somersault and two other horses fell on him. The field went...