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...aspiring, like the Younger Pitt's, nor wildly ambitious, like Lady Hester Stanhope's, nor grandly aquiline, like the Iron Duke's; but as one studies it there is a temptation to think that it must be prehensile, like an elephant's trunk...
...Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein's South Russia Command. A bitter, five-day attack expelled the Germans from Berdichev, battered them back toward the next and last railway from the Ukraine into Poland. To General Ivan Konev's Second Ukrainian Army fell Kirovograd, a station on a trunk railway leading westward from the far end of the Dnieper Bend...
...hands of a Boston firm, to her new brother-in-law, who had spent more than he could afford on his honeymoon and whose factory now employed 126 people where it had employed 432 in good times. Then she gave up, sold the house furnishings for $383, packed her trunk and moved in with Helen and George...
Next day he learned that he was one of many blacks who had been arrested and fined for adultery. Radebe dug a 1925 marriage certificate from his tin trunk and went to court to get his money back...
Before the conference opened, Chairman Spangler made a drastic change in the scenery : a single pottery elephant, with drooping trunk, was removed from the stage, replaced by two elephants with heads and trunks suitably rampant. As the gavel fell, no one could doubt who was in charge. Chairman Spangler occupied the rostrum; Senators Vandenberg and Robert A. Taft sat front center. Swiftly Harrison Spangler entrusted the writing of the foreign and domestic statements to committees headed respectively by Senators Vandenberg and Taft, told them to go behind closed doors. The first session then ended...