Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White-hot rage against the "Iron Man" flamed up in the French press last week, when Dr. Schacht as president of the German Reichsbank raised its discount rate from 6˝% to 7˝%. The inference drawn excitedly in Paris was that the Reichsbank w?s trying to give the impression that German finances are already overstrained and cannot bear even the present reparations burden...
Died. Capt. A. E. S. Hambelton of London, "Mark Twain of the Atlantic," retired White Star Line master (Celtic, Baltic, Belgic, Adriatic, Olympic); in London...
Under a late April sun, three green athletic fields belted by black cinder tracks marked off with whitewashed lines?one field on the Atlantic seaboard, one in the Midwest, one near the Pacific?teemed one afternoon last week with running, jumping, lunging figures in short white pants and varicolored track shirts. At the Penn relays in Philadelphia, the Drake relays in Des Moines, the West Coast relays in Fresno, U. S. athletes had, thrice equalled one world's record, and broken...
...warm it with the heat of their bodies. Drushka and Svacha bring dishes of food. The whole company lead the bride and groom near to the bed in preparation. Bride takes off shoes of groom (symbol of submission), guests bring seven sheaves of wheat (symbol of plenitude). Svacha brings white sheet (test of virginity). Groom strikes bride with whip (symbol of possession). Bride and groom embrace. Drushka brings a stall, with calves and lambs painted on it, and chickens carved in wood on top. Svat takes out couple who are warming bed. Drushka puts stall as screen before bed. Bride...
...stood among his councilors, taller than any, "hot-looking, heavily perfumed" ?the new king. He was 18, golden-haired, pink-and-white, husky, gusty, eager to begin the business of running England. His penny-pinching old father had run that business pretty well, had piled up money, but the son thought Henry VII had been piddling. He would speed up the small but rich-going concern, put himself and England on the map. He always thought of himself first and said that all he did was for the glory of God. That was the fashion. Solidly behind him stood...