Word: closing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beauteous maiden" seated on the garden wall, so romantically like the dream that he renounces his career, and the high likelihood of the Prime Minister's portfolio, resolved at last to grasp the romance which his youth promised. He returns to London to bring his affairs to a close, and the reader may guess whether success closes in on him again...
Meyer, who is secretary of the Club, has been prominent in former presentations. He played the role of Nelson in the musical comedy, "Close-Up", which was produced last spring. No one has been chosen as yet to fill the part left vacant by Meyer, but no difficulty is anticipated, since the role is a minor...
...21?Close of Pope Pius XI's jubilee year in honor of his 50th anniversary as a priest...
...Manchuria on two fronts (TIME, Dec. 2). Last week there should have been bonfires, triumphant parades, lusty bellowing of the Internationale in Moscow's vast Red Square. Instead, ghostly silence. Only the usual detail of Red Army sentries stood guard, their white breaths fuming in the frosty air, their close-fitting helmets exactly the shape of fat onions rampant, pointed upward. Suddenly the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Comrade Alexis Rykov, appeared, striding across the Red Square in his old leather overcoat and shiny workman's cap. Yes, he had something to say to correspondents...
...German wheelmen carried a whip in a receptacle attached to the handlebars. Upon inquiry, it was for dogs. I carried no whip, for l found a more excellent way. When chased by infuriated dogs, which happened three or four times every day, I waited till the monster got close. Then leaning over. I spit in his eye, becoming with practice uncannily accurate. The animal invariably retired. It wasn't the heat, it was the humidity...