Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Probably just another baby playing with matches," thought the men of Number Nine as they reached for their coats and eased down the pole...
...chief sensation of the polling centred around War Minister Paul Painleve, who has twice been ousted from the Prime Ministry since the last election and was thought last week to be in danger of losing his seat as a Deputy. In the nick of time there arrived to bolster up his candidacy the two least likely persons imaginable: Dieudonné Costes and Joseph Lebrix, famed 'round-the-world aviators (TIME, April...
Boldest of the witnesses was a small, bent, greying woman. Like a Fury she raged at Herr Badchis, "You ordered my daughter's arrest and thought you could make her talk. When she kept quiet your men strapped her into a chair, an electric chair...
...Remembering much solid and conservative work which had previously been signed by Charles Sims, remembering, too, the portrait of George V which Painter Sims had executed at their request and which they had been forced to decline because it gave the monarch spindle legs, several of the Hanging Committee thought it would be kinder not to show these last ridiculous and dreadful pictures. Charles Sims had written twice to his agent, before killing himself, to ask that his paintings be sent to the Academy on the right day, accompanied by the titles he had given them...
...March, the baby was born and with it, thought sophisticated newsreaders, a precedent. They foresaw future front pages headlined with "scoops" in a day when scoops are rare. . . . ASTERBILTS ABOUT TO HAVE A CHILD. . . . MOVIE QUEEN WILL BEAR TWINS, DOCTOR PREDICTS. . . . MAGNATE'S OFFSPRING THREE WEEKS OVERDUE...