Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truly favorite son that he and his motorcade, preceded by militia and Boy Scouts, blared down the main street of Delaware, his home town. The entire populace had turned out, regardless of party. Other towns in Ohio, "Mother of Presidents," had taught little Delaware how to act now that one of its own was recognizable as a candidate for the candidacy. Handsome, big-voiced Frank Willis was the man who placed President Harding in nomination...
...feat was undertaken to justify the party. But according to the "Nation", such an act as Mr. Borah has made might very possibly give him such a start on the rocky road to the presidency as the famous "Cross of Gold" speech so nearely gave William Jennings Bryan...
...will take place in the work covered by this Department, but it will affect only the mechanism of the field, serving to bind the whole together and give an opportunity for more individual work and personal contact with the instructors. Besides the men now in the Department who will act as tutors, two new men will be appointed...
...Act 1. Scene 1--The Alley. Scene 2--The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Barracks. Act II. Two-weeks later, The House of Cora. Act III. One hour later. The Cellar of Ling...
Until that juncture, "The Scarlet Fox" had been rather a nifty throwback, with Mr. Mack and his dauntless associates in credible controversy with the sins and shames of rural Alberto. In the second act all of us had been intrigued, as they say in "Hedda Gabler," by the photographic reproduction of a frontier lupinar, if one may be permitted to call it so. Wild ladies of the night held outrageous wassail with officers of the law, and the wicked tinkle of best glasses accompanied the loose music of a brothel piano. Beneath the revelry a vigilant Justice brooded; for Sergeant...