Word: arce
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...prisoners' box was not a confidence-inspiring red but leaden grey. Four soldiers guarded the eight prisoners. Facing Death, they smoked and read magazines to pass the time. Thirteen Jupiter arc lamps blazed upon judges, prosecutor, prisoners. A dozen Soviet photographers prowled and climbed about unhindered, taking snapshots. Cinema cameras, both silent and sound-recording, purred softly. To the half-million citizens shouting "Death! Death!" outside, batteries of loudspeakers shouted every word of the trial. To illiterate millions of Soviet citizens the state radio broadcast. By order of Prosecutor Krylenko daily bulletins from the trial were despatched from Moscow...
...arc of Mr. Bob's career started in Ely, Nevada, where around 1906 he was a practical mining man. In 1920 with Thomas F. Cole he raised enough money to finance the Comstock merger. He be came head of the combined companies, retained the position after the Cecil Rhodes South African group bought control...
...Many an individualistic woman of long ago bobbed her hair, viz., Joan of Arc, Lady Caroline Lamb (one of Byron's friends), George Sand...
...despatch was allowed to pass in which she was quoted as saying: "I go to Death or Victory. ... I feel as Joan of Arc must have felt, under divine inspiration! ... I shall cut their barbed wire fence with pliers and seize the salt with my own hands. . . . Neither jail nor Death hold any terrors...
...this time despatches at first reported that the British police officer asked Mrs. Naidu whether she would like to be sent back to her encampment in a comfortable limousine. India's matronly Joan of Arc was said to have voluntarily accepted, and, leaving her followers to trudge after the limousine, left the field of "Death or Victory" in pusillanimous, soft cushioned ease...