Word: undergoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some weeks ago the superstitious peasantry of the village of Zikliev endeavored to determine whether one M. Vchov and one Mme. Petrova had committed certain petty thefts by forcing them to undergo a "trial by ordeal...
Like to like and Mr. Mencken to the wilds of Russia, not to undergo the taunts of the Bolsheviki, nor yet to spend a Siberian winter collecting Polar Beariana; but to see his mental meanderings mirrored in the village of Zitlieff. There the peasants, according to the current "Time", administer a justice, the physical counterpart of Menckenism...
...Despite his appearance of good health, the 74-year-old Cardinal announced to the clergy of Belgium last week that his doctors have advised him to undergo a surgical operation for a long standing indisposition...
...this misfortune, however, the management may well be aware, and in the expectation that future audiences may not be forced to undergo, in order to see the denouement of the play, a similar hardship we turn at last to the play itself...
...seven days of picturesque wrangling and wirepulling, which the French press characterized almost unanimously as "scandalous." As the week closed, the Painlevé bill emerged momentarily to public view in a revised and amended form. Only Le Bon Dieu was aware what further and possibly indefinite modifications it might undergo before passing from the Committee into the Chamber itself...