Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Shy and perpetually veiled, the two wives moved about London invisibly. Even when walking down their hotel corridor or through the lobby they were boxed in by portable screens carried by attendants. When attending the theatre their box was fitted with a contraption of screens so arranged that they could...
Houses crumpled like paper. Police and firemen rushed to the scene; 25 were snuffed out when a second landslide crashed down on them. By morning 60 deaths were recorded, near the bottom of the moving mountain was a hole goo ft. deep, 180 ft. wide, big enough to swallow a...
Devoted Belgians, grateful again to their able king, recalled with pride that their royal family is the only one in Europe whose members are careless of photographers. King Albert's straddle and the remarkable pictures of Queen Eliza beth being let down backward from inspecting an Egyptian stone inscription...
Such an army swept down on the city of Kianfu, Kiangsi province last week. Kianfu boasts a Christian cathedral. From it the bandits kidnapped three French nuns, two priests: one French, one Chinese. The whites were prudently held for $20,000 ransom apiece. Nobody seemed likely to pay $20,000...
A hundred miles down the delta from New Orleans, Artist Brown discovered Boothville, La., on a peninsula 30 mi. long inhabited exclusively by leggers, river pilots and orange growers who live in houses raised on stilts to protect them from sudden floods and hurricanes. There he spends six months each...