Word: began
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Flem D. Sampson last week signed death warrants for two murderers, to be executed in September. At the same time he issued a proclamation calling attention to their crimes, their punishment, which he ordered read once a week in every prison and jail in the State. It began: "May the Lord have mercy upon the souls of these unfortunate men who are about to pay the extreme penalty for their transgressions...
...promised to move to what is now Arkansas. They failed to move. The Seminole War (1835-42), fiercest of Indian struggles, followed. Defeated, the Seminoles fled, some to Arkansas, many more into the murky wilderness of the Everglades. Solicitous of their welfare, the U. S. began an attempt to round them up out of the swamps where they have remained to this good day. A 23,542-acre reservation in Florida was waiting for them if only they would come out of their retreat and live...
...began as a literary hoax. The Berliner Tageblatt in 1924 received and printed a series of satiric poems signed by one J. L. Wetcheek, "famed" U. S. poet, translated into German by Lion (Power) Feuchtwanger. Soon, however, someone discovered that Wetcheek was unknown to U. S. Kultur, that wet-cheek, moreover, was a literal translation of Feuchtwanger. Hoaxes will out. Said Author Feucht wanger, dehoaxed: "If these poems, to some extent, are an attempt to put Babbitt into lyrics, I certainly do not claim to be representative of America, a country I do not know. I wanted...
...Angeles just three hours after her train had departed eastward. There upon Will Rogers took to an airplane, pursued the train to an outlying station, dropped the script to Miss Stone who caught it on the fly. In her drawing room, as the train moved on, she began memorizing lines, practicing tap steps, after eating cautiously, with an eye to health...
...were assembled at 8 o'clock in the storage battery room at the plant, and after a slight delay caused by New Englanders "Maine" and "Vermont" oversleeping, the papers were passed out. The hush that marked the first glance at the examination was gradually broken as the "brightest boys" began writing. A morning that had started cool grew increasingly hot and humid. Coats came off and sleeves were rolled up as the "49ers" worked in silence, five proctors quietly pacing between the desks. With tense expressions the boys labored over questions demanding exact, accurate answers, with puzzled, dreamy glances...