Word: straw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee of Award, chairmanned by Elihu Root and including Brand Whitlock, Colonel Edward M. House, Major General James G. Harbord, William Allen White, has been considering the plans submitted for over a month. Its final decision is to be made about the first of the year. Then a straw vote of the country will be taken on the chosen plan...
Died. James O'Neill, Jr., actor, 43, son of the late James O'Neill (actor, hero of The Count of Monte Cristo), brother of Eugene O'Neill, playwright (The Emperor Jones, The Straw, Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape), at a Trenton, N. J., hospital...
...moment ago I mentioned the manufacture of hemp. In the United States, hemp connotes rope, but in the Philippines much of our clothing is made of hemp cloth. In fact, the light hemp cloth is to our body what the straw hat is to our head. The weather there is very warm, rarely below 72 degrees, rarely above 86 degrees, which indicates that we have a small range of temperature throughout the year...
...wine, he is very well known; acting within the domain of his instincts, he is hardly known at all." That, in parvo, was Fabre's technique- "personal interviews" with his minute subjects. The Languedoeian scorpion (not the common black scorpion of Europe, which is harmless) is a grotesque, straw-colored beast, 3½ inches long, with bony armor and a hard, sharp, poison-tipped tail. Only a Fabre could be intimate with him. He digs his own home in the sand under rocks. He feels his way with his pincers, because, despite his eight staring eyes, he cannot...
...That General Wood as a martinet put the last straw on the camel's back...