Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Sabry Pasha began reading, firmly and clearly: ". . . Alliance with Great Britain . . . friendship with all nations except Britain's enemies . . . Britain spared Egypt many hardships. ..." Suddenly his voice faltered, then died away. He stood swaying for a moment, making a pathetic fluttering movement with his hands toward the President of the Senate. He crumpled to the floor...
...Knight of Hope." He has since shaved, is now called "The Knight Hope." For the past few years Prestes been in a Rio de Janeiro jail, serving a 17-year sentence for sedition passed on him after the failure of the Communist uprising of 1935. Three weeks ago he stood trial again, this time for the murder a 17-year-old girl, Elvira Copelo Polonio, alias Elza Fernandes...
...Communists outside. The Brazilian police found her a handy, unconscious guide to the hideaways of agitators. One day six Brazilians went to the house of Elvira Copelo, were asked in for coffee. When Elvira Copelo at length rose to clear away the coffee cups, one of her guests stood up behind her, slipped a piece of wire around her neck, strangled her to death. The other guests then stuffed the body into a suitcase, lugged it away. Exhibit A in the trial of Luiz Carlos Prestes last week was a letter purportedly written by him giving orders for this grisly...
...Manhattan show, Artist Martin had a slick portrait, some moody nudes, done in cool tones which nevertheless pulsed with life. In Tomorrow and Tomorrow, a big-thighed prostitute stood in her doorway, looking dejectedly out at the future. Temptation in Tonopah showed a tough-looking croupier, a composite of all the gambling-house characters in the capacious memory of Painter Martin, who is good at crap shooting. Out at Home, a baseball scene, one of the best in the show, was an adroit pattern of such vitality that it seemed to arrest action better than a 1,000th...
...with C. I. O. men and Vultee officials about the union's basic demand: an increase in minimum wages from 50? to 75? an hour. Meanwhile, Army pilots from Moffett Field went through the picket line without interference to fly away the 17 completed planes. But the factory stood idle. One minor division of the defense program was stalled...