Word: toe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...followed a muffled explosion below. The rest, wrapped in burlap to conceal the charred mutilation or gas-choked contortions of their faces, were dead. Of them, 34 were Mexicans, 15 were Negroes. The bodies were exhibited in improvised morgues. Many were unidentifiable. One was identified by a broken toe...
...months, every move, every gesture of this auspicious tableau had been argued and arranged between committees of papal and royal experts in etiquette. Chief rub: Papal etiquette demanded that visiting sovereigns should kiss the Pope's toe. Vittorio Emanuele, or Benito Mussolini, found this unbecoming to the dignity of the House of Savoy (TIME, Nov. 25). Hence the compromise, the one-kneed genuflection. His Holiness did not leave Their Majesties kneeling long. Quickly he motioned them to their feet, led them to two armchairs placed on a level with and on either side of his "Little Throne,"* which...
...Switzerland he spent a week with Voltaire; in Berlin he was offered a mastership in a boys' school by Frederick the Great. When he was finally allowed to return to Venice, his money gone and credit dwindling, he became a spy for the Inquisition; congenitally unable to toe the line, he got into hot water with his holy employers and had to leave Venice once more. Thence his decline was rapid: still a spy (though now on a commission basis, no longer salaried), he fell even lower, and died an obscure literary hack, "prolific writer of forgotten novels, libellous...
...look at, her voice is pleasant enough in tone, if lacking in volume, and her dancing is well above the average. She dances easily and lightly with an unusual charm and grace of movement. One feature, "The Ballet of Dreams" stands out above the rest, an exhibition of toe dancing exemplifying the charm and grace of movements peculiar to this dance other than exaggerated pirouettes...
...Alton, Ill., Robert Wadlow, 11, was measured. He stood 6 ft.11 in. tall, weighed 230 Ibs., wore a size 27 shoe (17 inches, heel-to-toe...