Word: wend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pantouffles--at the Georgian where it is rumored there will be fresh cream for the first morning in some months and a new and lighter group of doughnuts. Having then apprized myself of various financial rises in the locality which have my Vagabond mind rather worried, I shall wend my way to Sever 35 where Dr Maynadier at eleven o'clock promises to discuss a gentleman, hight Borrow, whose name has a subtle attraction for the wandering soul. This will prevent my hearing Professor Edgell in his lecture on Fifteenth Century Architecture at Fogg. But this Vagabond...
Miss Alice Brown has just written a short novel,* announced as a story about a New England spinster who suddenly becomes interested in murder. She thinks most detectives stupid, she loudly affirms that if she were a murderer she could cover her tracks far more successfully than those who wend their devious ways through the pages of detective stories. Presently she finds herself accused of murder. What a nice idea it is, to be sure...
...Chignik, the expedition awaited a new engine for their commander's plane. This was to be their last stop on the American continent. They were scheduled to wend their way over the sparsely populated Aleutian Islands, with only a few fishermen to help in case of need...
Benito Mussolini: "At Pescara, Italy, I visited poet Gabriele d'Annunzio's birthplace, an humble cottage. I was received by his former governess, shown the household relics. From a window I addressed a crowd: 'Let our reverend thoughts wend their way to d'Annunzio, the heroic soldier, faithful Italian, wonderful poet. Viva...
...TIGER'S CLAW.-Among the difficulties through which Jack Holt, American engineer in India, has to wend his unassuming way are a tiger, a half-caste wife, a sweetheart from back home and a lot of "thugs." A dam is well dynamited. The half-caste proves her mettle as a lover...