Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Everything went perfectly," beamed Surgeon Marion when the exploring was over. As the anesthetic wore off and M. Poincarè regained consciousness he appeared to think first and only of work. Certain reports had had to be left unfinished when illness obliged him to resign the Prime Ministry. As soon as ever he could Le Lion called for documents, ink and paper, set about completing the reports in his clear, precise, almost microscopic hand. So many huge baskets and bouquets arrived that when the invalid's room was full Mme. Poincare ordered the surplus sent, not without vanity, to deck...
Sweden welcomes its new citizens," said Prince Karl. "The Swedish nation recognizes your hopeless situation and sincerely appreciates your burning wish to return to the mother country. But Sweden expects that its new citizens will work willingly, for without work Sweden's earth will not give good results...
...Rest assured it is not because I dislike being a year older!" flashed II Duce as he engaged the gears. "No?my reason is that nothing must interrupt the ordered rhythm of Fascist work. There are enough holidays on our Italian calendar already ?in fact too many!" and letting in his clutch the Dictator vanished, inconsistently, for a birthday holiday. Speeding to the seacoast he boarded a waiting seaplane, was soon soaring around the toe and heel of Italy, headed at last up the Adriatic in a flight of over 1200 miles...
...night at their rustic farm, the Villa Carpena. Lights were doused early. Next day the dutiful Duce bade his spouse a crisp farewell, sped back to his chosen busy bachelorhood in Rome. There, after buying a red carnation?just now his favorite boutonniére?the Dictator settled down to work, found an appalling piece of work...
Browner than unbleached muslin was Charles L. Bernheimer, 65, Manhattan cotton merchant, when he returned to work last week. For a month he had been exploring the rocky district where Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico join each other at right angles. It was his fourteenth expedition in the Southwest and the seventh he had financed for the American Museum of Natural History. The museum's Barnum Brown accompanied him, and the Carnegie Institution's Earl H. Morris. They found evidence that the extinct Basket Makers, Aborigines who preceded the Cliff Dwellers, used cotton for their textiles, inner...