Word: virgo
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...Hugh Herbert) finds the author of Kiss and Tell and The Moon Is Blue at the same old stand, but with greatly lowered standing. In A Girl Can Tell, Playwright Herbert, still concerned with discreetly amorous young girls, is still dallying with dalliance, still writing under the sign of Virgo in the spirit of Capricorn. But this time his hand is tired, and his touch seems coarse...
...Goths and 22 Norwegians on exploration journey from Vinland westward. We had camped by two islands one day's journey north from this stone. We were and fish[ed] one day. After we came home [we] found ten [of our] men red with blood and dead. A.V.M. [Ave Virgo Maria] save [us] from evil. [We] have 10 men [of our party] by the sea to look after our ship[s] 14 days' journey from this island. Year...
...Zodiac: "Margaret, whose birthday falls on the 21st of August, is on the bridge between Leo and Virgo-a borderline case between the strong and the demure...
...Virgo Maria." It was finally proved that, without additional expense, the clock simply could not be put anywhere but in its old place. The leftists had a small triumph, however; the Communist workers of a nearby glass factory supplied a clockface free of charge. "After all," said the leftists, "it is the face of the clock that people will see, and then they will think...
...overfilled every available craft. The sun was setting in a fresh westerly breeze as the boats, hung with bunting, sailed out between the piers. On the leading boat stood the statue of the Virgin, one foot holding down the head of a sea serpent, above the inscription: "Tu es Virgo Maria, portus sahitis, marls stella" (Thou art the Virgin Mary, haven of safety, star of the sea). Catholic fishermen sailed their craft daringly, crashing the gunwales under the foam to prove to the leftist onlookers that with the Madonna in the leading boat nothing could happen to them...