Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this columnist has had his eye on a certain date, which falls on this coming Saturday. He had planned to set it aside as Official Vagabond Day: insignia and epaulets were to be worn, and the occasion was to be formal. However, it seems that there were nefarious plans afoot to hoodwink him. Now you can't hoodwink a Vagabond: he doesn't care for that sort of thing. Such scoundrelly caballas he refuses to tolerate...
...MacDonald-Briand "plot" seemed highly improbable, nevertheless nearly everyone in Paris did believe that sly old B'rer Briand was the man who set afoot a national (not international) intrigue among the French Left Parties which resulted in the Cabinet's fall...
...From Stroudsburg, Pa., Dr. George S. Travis, 50, motored late at night through heavy snow to a gunshot-wounded patient. The car stalled a mile from the patient's house. Dr. Travis proceeded afoot. Sleepy, cold, exhausted, he tottered into a snow bed, died...
...rescue be needed.* Company officials said that they would wait a fortnight, in hopes that the pack would open. To send their vessels against the pack now would break the ships and not the ice. If all else failed, they would wait until they could bring the Byrd group afoot over...
Admiral Byrd, whose better equipped expedition did more thorough and extensive work, similarly named new localities?Marie Byrd Land (after his wife), Rockefeller Mts., Charles Bob Mts. His flight over the South Polar Plateau added very little more to the knowledge of the plateau itself than Amundsen and Scott, afoot, recorded the antarctic "summer" of 1911-12. However, he could see the real lay of the Queen Maude Range, of which the Charles Bob Mts. are an extension. Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, on a 1,500-mi. sledge and ski trip over the Ross Shelf ice to the foot...