Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston's seizures were different from prior ones only in that Boston newspapers were specially informed. They scare-headed their reports and other coastal papers imitated them. Credit for the Federal action was claimed by Dr. Allan Winter Rowe of Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital and by Importer Ambruster of ergot fame...
...Knute Rockne, grizzled Notre Dame football coach, famed for frowning and talking dolefully about great teams before they went into action, lately spoke to a group of coaches at Northwestern University's summer school. Said he: "Pessimism as applied to football has been worked to death. It is time to swing back the other way. . . . Hereafter I will present a more or less radiant picture of my prospects." Of Notre Dame's nine games this fall, not one will be held in South Bend...
Whenever in the last five years the Navy was up in Congress for debate and action, a big thick-shouldered man in a tweed suit, a red necktie and yellow shoes, could generally be found striding up and clown the Capitol's corridors, buttonholing Congressmen and Senators, passionately urging them to vote for the biggest kind of U. S. fleet, hoarsely warning them against the imperialism of Great Britain. His name was William B. Shearer. He was in his early 40's. His voice was the voice of a 16-in. gun booming arguments and demands for more ships. Well...
...trapeze. The dirigibles which Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. is preparing to build for the Navy at Akron will be fitted not only to carry planes similarly but also to haul them into her hull. Values of the procedure are: in war, dirigibles might carry swift planes to scenes of action; after sortie the planes could return to the mother ship for fuel, ammunition, sleep for the pilot. In commerce similar refueling possibilities might be valuable. Planes could make ground deliveries from the airship, later catching up with her in her flight, bringing up passengers, mail...
...Author. Although Red Likker may sell well, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb is no booklegger. Cautious not to offend Cobb-clients, he leaves the great Prohibition novel a thing yet to be written. But Mr. Cobb in action is less cautious than Novelist Cobb. Says he, lately elected Chairman of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment...