Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seemingly the bomb was fitted with a clock work mechanism timed to explode at the instant when His Majesty was scheduled to pass. Kings, however, are too experienced to risk their lives by keeping to a time table known to every assassin. Therefore His Majesty was a good ten minutes motor ride distant when the bomb exploded. Though prudent, he is no coward. "Drive on," he said with compressed lips when told of the explosion, "Keep to the original route, through the Piazza Giulio Cesare...
...Irishman drank farewell toasts with his brothers of the Saorstat Corps. Said he: "Ten-thirty is my bedtime and I refuse to crawl in earlier just because there's a little job of flying over the Atlantic to be done tomorrow." It was midnight when he finally retired, in the room next to that of his eight-year-old daughter Pat, who, he said, "doesn't give a hump about all this flying." The Germans, strange figures in Ireland, plodded back to their quarters, the Baron to play a final game of solitaire, the phlegmatic Captain to make...
...Hamburg a fat man named Otto Kemmerich got into a swimming pool with a California sea lion. After swimming for ten hours the sea lion went to sleep in the water, was revived with a meal of fresh herring, swam 32 hours more, collapsed. Kemmerich swam four hours longer, a new world's endurance record...
...Whenever I play in a golf tournament I lose six pounds," said Johnny Farrell. "I lose ten," said Gene Sarazen. "When Bobby Jones played eighteen extra holes to beat Cruikshank in 1923 he lost fourteen pounds," said a statistician...
...patrons for the highly able efforts of the Pasadena Players. The mechanics of the production were gigantic; there were vast numbers of actors, 400 costumes and 300 masks of all kinds. Irving Pichel, deep-voiced and deliberate, made a splendid Lazarus. Gilmor Brown, who organized the Pasadena Players some ten years ago, played Tiberius and acted as director. His handling of mob scenes, much after the methods of Max Reinhardt, was always effective...