Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hull bowed (no curtsy) to the visitors. Animated talk began. They all boarded the train, rumbled through the night toward Washington. In Pennsylvania, the pilot train was halted with a hotbox, streaked at 85 m.p.h. to try to catch the royal train at Washington. It was eight minutes late and all the ace correspondents who had trailed Their Majesties across Canada missed their first meeting with the Roosevelts...
...Forbears of the present Stock Exchange were securities auctioneers who began trading in 1792 under a buttonwood tree at 68 Wall Street...
...wife moped in her mother's big, heavily mortgaged house in Brooklyn, blamed herself when their baby died, blamed Bob when, after a gloomy weekend, he seemed glad to get back on the road. Bob took to padding his expense account, almost slept with a shopgirl in Boston, began to feel trapped. But when the old lady died, they found an insurance policy...
...Quebec, Wolfe valorously engaged General Montcalm's French forces on the Plains of Abraham, routed them. The 13 years of American history which preceded this battle, in the French and Indian Wars, are the stuff of which Next to Valour is made. Its author, John Jennings, 33, began doing research on the period in 1935, in the belief that "a whopping good story could be written of the time." Next to Valour is indeed a whopper-820 pages, full of "God's wounds" and "I'll warrants" and "Your servant, sirs"-but not such a whopper...
...officer. Jamie hardly minded, but when Hubert's dark eye fell upon Purity Stiles, whom Jamie now loved, that was a different matter. Hubert framed Jamie on a treason charge, had Purity abducted, kept a couple of jumps ahead until, along about page 800, Jamie's luck began to change...