Word: baring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week of Nominee Hoover was uneventful, busy-beaverish. It consisted chiefly in trips to and from the broad-terraced Hoover home in Washington to the bare-walled Hoover office at the Department of Commerce. There were no public remarks, no remarkable actions. To avoid the peering public the Hoovers switched churches on Sunday, going to the Quaker meeting house on Irving street instead of the Friends' meeting house at 18th and I streets...
...beaverish heir and beneficiary became, as the hyperbolists said, almost deafening. Following his telegram of the acceptance to the G. 0. P. Convention, Nominee Hoover addressed no word to the U. S. electorate. He actively avoided contact with the nation's press. He shut himself in his big, bare office at the Department of Commerce. He left his chunky political secretary, George Akerson, onetime newsgatherer, to answer all questions. Newsmen remarked that this was but a continuation of the policy adopted by Secretary Hoover ever since he seriously began aligning delegates...
...date of the Norman invasion or the French irregular verbs fixed in his mind when a bare-kneed cutie, all scented up with Black Narcissus, is sitting just across the aisle? No one without the sales resistance of a Galahad...
Last week, a thickset, greying, busy-beaverish man sat in his big bare office at the U. S. Department of Commerce...
...have left England for the U. S. This fact has caused sentimental Britons to feel pangs of regret and it last week caused Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, to offer caustic reproof rather than sympathy to the sentimental Britons. Wrote rich Mr. Brisbane, whose splendid homes are by no means bare of pictures...