Word: squatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squat Slav, called by the prosecution, who described himself as an "historian, a man of letters and at present an assistant to a stone- mason," gave evidence in Petlura's philo-Semiticism, denying with a grief-contorted face that the "General" had ever killed Jews or caused them to be massacred...
...soft, green, magic carpet was unrolled at the Meadow Brook Club, L. I., between squat wooden structures, blue as robin's eggs. Into the squat structures poured more men with monocles than ever before gathered in one place in the U. S. Many of them wore suede shoes; blue jackets with brass buttons, and nearly all of them soft grey felt hats. With them their ladies, gay in scarlet and gold, green and white. The squat structures were nearly saturated with rich men, sportsmen, society men and their ladies, when out on the magic carpet the witch- ery which...
Thus it was argued that M. Briand might still be suffering from eye trouble-not trouble with his own eyes, but trouble from the stern eye of Premier Raymond Poincaré-an eye that glares discouragement on what it considers the too liberal, too pacifist policies of the squat Foreign Minister...
...unseen multitude surrounds Dr. Barclay approaching Point Sur?his disciples; minds at any distance aware of his power. The women at Point Sur,?even Maruca, the squat half-breed whom he uses as deliverance from a 15-year chastity?vaguely understand his announcements: "God thinks through action .... Nothing you can do is wicked...
...five hours, they had been flying over France, lost in a fog that obscured land and the tips of the America's wings. Once, for a moment, they thought they saw rows of squat bath houses on a beach. Again, there seemed to appear a faint haze of light-perhaps it was Paris or the beacons at Le Bourget airport. Then the fog swallowed all. "When we got above the clouds," Commander Byrd later told the New York Times, "there were at times some terrible views. We would look hundreds of feet into fog valleys-dark ominous depths...