Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monumental vein, Poet MacLeish carves lines that would look well on a monolith...
...latter's death in 1925. Later he became a director of the Munsey-owned Sun on a perpetual roving assignment, detailed by the Sun's President William Thompson Dewart who said: "My only instructions are that you see everything and write about it in your own vein. To you in the future, the whole earth is a local story...
...buff. At the side of each is a second. Doctors and corporation officials are present; fellow members sit about drinking beer and watching the "fun." About the middle of each duelist is fastened a protective pad, about each throat a thick scarf to prevent severance of the jugular vein. Over the eyes are placed wire mesh goggles; a steel snout protects the nose. The duelists' prime targets are one another's cheeks and forehead...
...inevitable catastrophe awaiting them, and how the heroine appears at the end in a tent show somewhere in Georgia--all this is told nimbly, if a little incredibly at times. The climax is good melodrama, and little else. If Mrs. Hey ward writes more light novels in the same vein, they can all be recommended for summer reading with the same assurance with which "Three-A-Day" is approved...
...Iloilo, P. I., a dying steel-spurred righting cock, wildly fluttering, fatally gaffed Juan Martinez, spectator, in the jugular vein...