Word: ve
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoying the scene, the Chinese thought they'd start their war, and she found herself between the armies. Fortunately a shell that struck three feet from her proved a dud. When she came in she said: 'Peter, you should have been with me this afternoon. I've had such an interesting time !' " Apparently the Kyne family likes its walks adventuresome-and that's how Peter B. Kyne strikes me-a charming adventurer who writes romances with that rarest of all gifts, a sense of humor...
Meantime, Billy Sandow, Lewis' manager, had jumped into the ring. "It's a foul!" cried he. "A dirty foul! You've got to award us the match!" The swarthy Munn peered querulously across the mat, tore off his bathrobe, assumed a bellicose attitude, confronted the irate manager. Munn's manager likewise grew threatening; but for all that the referee gave the fall to Lewis on a foul, allowing the latter 15 minutes to get back into the ring. The crowd was indignant, stormed about the ringside, hooting, booing...
...Many of your countrymen claim that man is naturally a 'fighting animal' and that war will always be part of life. It is true that man is a fighting animal. You've probably heard the story of the Irishwoman who was waving a delighted farewell to the British troops leaving Ireland. She said: 'Good-by, good-by, me darlints, now at last we'll be able to fight in pace.' Let's fight not 'in piece,' but for peace...
...having reduced his weight ten pounds. "One of those bobbed-haired stenographers" said she used to lie in bed of a morning laughing at the sound of her family doing their daily "physical torture." "One morning, though, I got up to watch them, and ever since I've been helping them loosen the plaster on the ceilings...
...crowd," he said, "but it's not the 500 that we want. You fellows each ought to bring out a friend, and if you can get 400 men out I'll guarantee we'll beat Yale. As it is, they've got the edge on paper, but we're going straight ahead, and I'll say right now, our chances are brighter than for several years to have a championship track team...