Word: awaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Root went away the President must have noticed that his step was like a girl's, his slender shoulders unbroken by time. Newsgatherers flocked about the departing Elder Statesman. Did he think, they asked, the World's Court rules could be so changed as to insure American membership...
With Senator Smoot gone, and with the G. O. P., South, interviewed and dismissed, an unwonted emptiness pervaded the Penney estate. Mr. Hoover was fretful. He had drawn Cabinet lists, rearranged them, scratched them, interlined them, thrown them away and locked his decisions in the secret vault of his mind. Everything was arranged and three slack weeks stretched away to March 4. Other men might have played sportively in the languid Florida sunshine, but not Mr. Hoover. His hands itched to grip the Presidency. He greeted casual callers absently and mused about Washington...
...Hoovers boarded Manhattan Banker Jeremiah Milbank's yacht Saunterer and cruised away at slow speed for the Florida Keys, for Fort Myers and a birthday party with their great and good friend Thomas A. Edison. Mr. Hoover planned to go on around to the West Coast and try for an early-running tarpon...
They blew up the mine, wrecked its extraction mill, destroyed the nearby Bonanza mine, captured George Marshall of New York, carried him away, turned him loose in the jungle to die wretchedly of malaria...
...Gold Coast Orchestra will lend a more than modern touch in its first spring appearance away from Cambridge, with futuristic interpretations of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" and "Pale Moon" by way of contrast to selections such as those from Chaminade, Nevin and Kreisler which will be presented by the Mandolin Club and specialty numbers...