Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Renaissance. She made him promise to paint her portrait and he did a preliminary chalk drawing, which is now in the Louvre. He moved on to Florence and finally in 1502 into the employ of the "Bloody Borgia," Cesare, to follow for a year in the violent wake of the Borgia's bull bannerols. He got many a letter from Isabella inviting him to Mantua. She may have asked her brother, Lucrezia's husband, to ask Cesare to excuse Leonardo. Until 1506 Leonardo worked in Florence, only no miles from Mantua. At any rate, sometime between...
Last week Pan American Airways forged steadily ahead with its transpacific airway program, assured by the Post Office Department that Congress would provide $1,800,000 for the first year of operation -$35,000 for each weekly round-trip between California and China. At Wake Island, one of the operating bases in the projected 8,000-mi. airway, a temporary radio station set up on the beach went officially on the air for the first time, contacting California, Honolulu, Midway Island...
...Wake Island consists of three tiny jungle-clad atolls-Wilkes, Peale and Wake proper. Last week the advance construction crew ran into difficulties on Wilkes. Days of digging, drilling and blasting under a broiling sun revealed no drinking water. Further difficulties arose when the men tried to blast a ship channel between Wilkes and Peale, to facilitate unloading the supply ship North Haven. The hard coral barrier proved so resistant to dynamite that the project was abandoned. Meanwhile on Wake Island proper, a brilliant electric light system was in operation, and the Pan American pioneers looked forward to "movies...
Silence in the observation train. The entire flotills of destroyers, patrol boats, canoes, yachts, and excursion steamers which follow the wake of the racing shells seem to pause in absolute quiet. Clearly, Referee Curtiss voice rings out for all to hear, "Are you ready...
With the money in his pocket, Gypo, instead of completing his plan, goes on an astounding nightmare spree. He gulps down a bottle of whiskey. At the McPhillip wake, he astounds Mrs. McPhillip (Una O'Connor) by pouring four silver coins into her lap. He bashes a policeman on the jaw, harangues the crowd that gathers to applaud him, buys the company beer and chips. He creates a scene in a brothel and then completes his ruin at a Sinn Fein meeting-where he has been promised reinstatement if he tracks down the spy who betrayed McPhillip-by bringing...