Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...multiplied the province's income tenfold. For the British he commanded the Bikaner Camel Corps in the Boxer Rebellion, served in the Imperial War Cabinet in World War I, was the only Indian to sign the Versailles Treaty. For 40 years he dazzled English coronations, a walking tower of jewels. At his Golden Jubilee in 1937 he gave to charity his weight in gold: some...
...product of civil war; he turned an argument over divorce laws into the speech of hi. life, a "passionate protest ... on behalf of that small Protestant band which had so often proved itself the chivalry of Ireland." He was beginning to write, meanwhile, those "endeavors in cold passion" (the "Tower" period) which Hone compares with the third period of Beethoven...
...full year the "Net-Workshop", using the Network's cramped quarters, did its best to turn out a play a week. Some of the efforts met with student approval. For example: Fleming's commentary on undergraduate life last winter, "The Leaning Tower of Ivory"; the organization's only semi-experimental shows -- Louis Eno's and John Lawlor's "radio music dramas"; a couple of plays by Milton Van Dyke...
...clear was the afternoon that some of the crews, passing well to the south of Paris, had their first sight of the Eiffel Tower. But most of them were too busy for rubbernecking: all the way in from the Channel coast, despite a strong escort of Allied fighters, the bombers were bedeviled by clouds of Focke-Wulf 1905 and Messerschmitt logs, based in great force in western France and manned by skillful pilots...
...fetishistic crutches featured in so many Dali paintings may be traced to a crutch which he found in the attic of a tower from which he had planned to push a girl. Says Dali: "It was the first time in my life that I saw a crutch. . . . The superb crutch! Already it appeared to me as the object possessing the height of authority and solemnity. [It] communicated to me an assurance, an arrogance even, which I had never been capable of until then...