Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made U. S. consul at Tunis. In 1804 he became "Navy Agent to the Barbary States" and as such led his heterogeneous force from Alexandria, Egypt, through the Libyan Desert and attacked Derna from the landward side while U. S. gunboats under Commodore Samuel Barron bombarded the town from the sea. Hot of temper and loose of tongue...
...roughly equivalent to a batter's batting average as a test of all round efficiency-was 3.34, second in his league only to that of 37-year-old Robert Moses Grove. Last winter, during a complicated controversy in which it appeared that Feller might be declared a "free agent," rival club owners bid as high as $100,000 for his services. This spring Feller's efficiency has been, if anything, more spectacular than it was a year ago. In three appearances against the National League pennant-winning New York Giants, Feller had last week pitched a total...
Hitch Your Wagon's first scene exhibits Rex Duncan (George Curzon), a onetime stage idol who has gone somewhat to pot in Hollywood, having the jitters in a Manhattan sanatorium where his agent (Joseph Sweeney) has placed him because of alcoholic excesses. A shapely young admirer comes in bringing a gift of noodle soup. She turns out to be one Camille Schwartz (Dennie Moore), encouraged to visit Duncan by a stage-struck mother. The actor is charmed by Camille's naive allusions to her simple, bourgeois life, even more fascinated when she deprecates his film appearances but admires...
Back home after two years, Alfred found himself regarded more as an undesirable alien than a returning hero, tried futilely to explain why he was no Communist, but finally kept his mouth shut after a call from an agent of the Department of Justice. His girl had married a wealthy logging operator's son from Seattle, but now she suggested that if he would get a job in Russia she would go with him. Alfred declined. One Russian exile was enough. Meanwhile, even though the bottom had dropped out of his world, where there was any democracy left, there...
Undoubtedly President Conant is the best publicity agent of the University. No matter whether on the right or wrong road, he has wheeled Harvard into a central portion of the public upon matters that concerned the layman as much eye. His handling of the Tercentenary, his action as the student--all of which has won commendation from the press, have shot Harvard up to the crest achieved by Eliot. At this meeting, then, President Conant will see the reaction of alumni at first hand, and like a good newspaperman he will speak the right kind and amount of information...