Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tsar Peter, perhaps to spare his son, the Tsarevitch Alexius, such pangs of doubt, had the boy murdered. He also decapitated one of his mistresses, Mary Hamilton, and delivered an anatomical lecture on her head. Withal, savage Peter was called "The Great." Last week on the white sands at Biarritz it remained incumbent upon Spain's fashionably tanned Alfonso XIII to state clearly which of Peter I's gargantuan examples he would like to follow "if it could be done...
...clash between Soviet Russians and a force composed of Chinese and White Russians near the frontier town of Pogranichnaya. Wounded: twelve Chinese, two White Russians, five Red Russians...
...Turkey-Buzzards (vultures) have nearly naked heads. The heads of "bald" eagles are covered with white feathers after they are several years old, before which they are brownish black...
That his country should have a national theatre was one of the ideas of the late many-minded Porfirio Diaz, onetime President of Mexico. Work on the gilded, white-marble, city-block-size structure, planned for the 1910 Mexican centennial, stopped in 1910 when Diaz was overthrown...
...Carleton H. Palmer, was installed at an early age and became, after the war and his father's death, president of the company. It was under his youthful stimulus that the business began advertising, expanding. Still young (38 years), clean-shaven (Squibb's shaving cream), smiling through white teeth (Squibb's tooth paste), healthy (Squibb specifics and much horse backing at Fairfield, Conn., where he is a master-of-hounds and keeps an airplane), President Palmer's policy has been to market standard and recognized medicines under their own names and advertise the Squibb...