Word: growing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early morning round, noticed something amiss with the bird sanctuary, approached and looked at Rima. She was almost invisible beneath tar and feathers. There were no clues. Public opinion was satisfied that this was the work of outraged friends of Peter Pan, the boy-who-would-never-grow...
...Lang in the last performance (1922). He failed then of election to the Christus role by only a few votes and played the High Priest Nathaniel. Like his revered cousin, Alois Lang looks the part - a gentle carver of wooden Christs who has been letting his hair and beard grow for years to be prepared...
...reviewing with an after-dinner pleasure the events of that day. He had spent part of the morning discussing with a gardener the construction of a new hothouse and later, satisfied that the new house would be the equal of the others in which it is his pleasure to grow pears and grapes, he strolled past the chicken yard toward the park. The chickens, of course, were more his wife's affair than his, but they reflected credit on him - an entirely new species of chickens, called the "red and white," which Poland has adopted as its "national breed...
Paris. Throughout the week the French Government appeared to grow steadily more apprehensive lest the U. S. and Britain were drawing too closely into disarmament cahoots. Fear that Italy and France may be brusquely dictated to by Britain and the U. S. at the Five Power Naval Conference was increasingly manifest in the Paris press. Said the Journal des Debats...
John Gilbert, cinemactor, honeymooning in Paris with his actress-wife, Ina Claire, said: "If I cannot get privacy in France, I will have to grow a beard and wear plus fours" [baggy knickerbockers...