Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Omaha's police were mustered out for night duty, 500 strong. They patrolled the streets in squads. Twenty dusky suspects were taken into custody, but none had a hatchet. Mrs. Stribling thought she recognized her attacker in Jake Bird, a 24-year-old ex-convict, though Bird was black and Mrs. Stribling had described the hatcheteer as copper-colored. Bird was hustled to the State penitentiary for safekeeping...
Throughout the week all England grew more and more tense and sad with the premonition of this thought. As though some primeval giant or very god lay dying, even Nature grew disturbed, then violent. Great storms lashed the continent of Europe from the Mediterranean to the Baltic. Gales and floods brought death to 149 men and women, most of whom went down on foundered merchant ships or perished in the many flooded areas of the Rhineland, Holland, Belgium, Ireland, Wales and England. Seldom has Death come more awesomely. The storm was worthy even of George V, King and Emperor, defender...
...England knew that Queen Victoria lived to the age of 80 in Sir Stanley Hewett's care. The great Queen's Grandson, George V, was but 63 last week. His death, thought Britons, would be a sad commentary on the wages of virtue and an upright life. Those Royal libertines, George I, George II and George IV, all died at the age of 67. That Royal part-time madman, George III (reigned 1760-1820; mad 1788-89 and 1811-20) lived to the prodigious age of 81-a year longer than Victoria herself. Surely the great Queen would...
Instead, as the sword of death hung like that of Damocles, last week, all Englishmen faced the future with the same confident thought: "Long live our King...
...that Mr. Houghton must have been elected too, and that they had seen the diplomatic last of him. But instead he was defeated, and so he was back in London last week as Ambassador-and so a banquet really had to be arranged. By some Briton's happy thought the banquet was tendered to Alanson Bigelow Houghton by the London Newsvendors Benevolent Association...