Word: whithering
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...story is told that a British colonel at Kazvin, whither the anti-Bolshevik forces had retreated, spotted among the Cossack Brigade's remaining officers a striking six-foot Persian with hard grey eyes. His name was Reza Khan. The colonel knew him for a brave man and, in a last desperate attempt to keep the brigade together, he put him in command. Had he not done so, the future King of Kings might have died an unknown old horse bully...
Kirsten Flagstad, greatest soprano of U.S. opera, who untold times has ho-yo-to-hoed Brünnhilde's clarion calls, last week seemed to be in Brünnhilde's plight-hemmed in by a ring of fire. From Oslo in her native Norway, whither she flew last April to join her husband, came a report that her husband said that Flagstad would remain there until war ends...
...long, silent struggle between Spain's soldiers and Spain's politicians to see who is going to run the country and whither, the soldiers had their inning last week...
...Robert Minor, who recently succeeded jailed Earl Browder as head man of U.S. Communists, obtained considerable notoriety in 1935 with his story of being kidnapped and beaten in New Mexico, whither he had journeyed to fight for ten miners accused of murdering a sheriff. Detective Martin reported to the Governor and Chief of State Police as follows: "After having made a thorough investigation of the alleged kidnapping . . . and after having taken long statements from 3 7 witnesses and going over the grounds . . . it is our firm belief that this . . . case is . . . a fraud and hoax perpetrated upon the Governor...
...river, out of a successful paint business, into a vivid, dreamed world of his own, in describing which (Winesburg, Ohio; Poor White; Dark Laughter) he became for a time (roughly, the '205) one of America's great storytellers; in a Colon, Canal Zone hospital, whither he had been taken ailing with peritonitis from his South America-bound ship (TIME, March...