Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...14th Century Palace of the Rulers, where the Goddess was supposed to have taken refuge. An object of search and speculation for 25 years, the palace revealed one room closely resembling the throne room of the Palace at Knossos. Broken pottery and crude clay figurines were found. Final task was clearing the well beside which the goddess rested. The diggers were hopeful that it contained a wealth of objects of art, found it had long ago been rifled, was empty...
Last week Artist Anderson was in Manhattan, bewildered by the fuss made over him, wrestling with the job of making Henry act funny seven days a week. One thing eased that task: Though Henry remains for the most part as mute as ever, his companions in the newspaper strip may talk...
...rest of the cast act quite well from Nancy Sheridan as the oldest daughter on whom the brunt of the family troubles lie, down to young Richard Jack, who puts on a surprisingly fine performance as the young boy of the house. It is the task of the eldest child to keep the publicity loving mother and her nefarious actions from driving the rest of the family to distraction. The boy and his young sister, Helen Claire, take the eccentricities of their mother most sincerely to heart with the result that they are unable to stand the atmosphere she creates...
...nations--will not countenance a return to the devious methods of pre-war Europe. If the recent London Naval conversations, and the talks now in progress between France and England, have any significance, it is the clear manifestation of an attempt to achieve real understanding between the men whose task is to further the desires of their people for peace and security...
...library in his wake, he trundles dismally along the appointed orbit. And as he passes, the foul Eumenides tweak his dank locks. When he falls by the wayside they smear his gaunt frame with thick and amylaceous sepulchral ointments, gleefully telling his ribs as they ply their flendish task. Let us shudder and shamble onwards...