Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"We shall employ a double-track system, each track in a separate tunnel," said Don Luis. "Then there will be no possibility of a complete tie-up of the service, even should a train be wrecked."
In dry Manhattan arrived last week damp London's courtly George Reeves Smith Esq., perhaps England's leading paladin and patron of the wine. Most smart U. S. citizens have stopped at one or another of his luxury hotels- the Berkeley, Claridge's, the Savoy-but few...
A new scandal was unearthed at Scotland Yard last week, and London's police commissioner, General Lord Byng of Vimy, Viscount of Thorpe-le-Soken, sat up all night to investigate it. Bolshevik agents were said to be learning British troop movements with amazing promptitude. Officers of the special...
In other words the Italian team, champions of all Italy, had been defeated 3-0 by Austrians who are now the champions of Central Europe. After "spittoon" came epithets so violent, similes so obscene, that presently the French government-no committee of prudes-banned the sale in France of L...
For two days Tsar Boris was his usual cheerful self in Vienna, waiting for word to proceed to Rome. But no word came. Instead came General Wolkoff, glum and forbidding. The Vatican had not agreed to any compromise, it appeared. Unless all offspring of the union were brought up as...