Word: spruced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Royal Murder. Despite the Dictator-King's democratic remarks, he has appointed Leader of The White Hand General Zivkovitch his Prime Minister. How likely it is that this ruthless militarist will promote democracy appears from his dark record. He was the spruce young lieutenant charged with the personal safety of King Alexander Obrenovitch and Queen Draga, in 1903, when they were foully murdered in the royal bedroom of the old palace at Belgrade...
Best shot: top of a spruce wagging like a sinister head against a window in a storm...
...state produces more hardwood lumber than any other except Arkansas. And it has on its mountains great wealth in yellow poplar, birch, ash, oak, spruce, hemlock, walnut. They too must be wisely utilized...
King, Dictator, President. When spruce, bronzed King Alfonso had conferred with paunchy, florid General de Rivera to their two hearts' content, they chuffed by special train to a remote and unheard of village in the Pyrenees called Canfrane. There a shiny new electric locomotive was hitched to the special, drew it up a terrifically steep grade to an altitude of 3,600 feet, and stopped dead in the very midnight middle of the Samport Tunnel...
Paper. Kimberly-Clark Co. manufactures rotogravure paper for 80% of the newspapers and magazines in North and South America, also controls the Spruce Falls Power & Paper Co., Ltd. (50% of its production is for the N. Y. Times). Last week, the two companies were reorganized under the name of the Kimberly-Clark Corp...