Word: booming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family, and some 25 other Americans and British, and this besieged party was being attacked and rushed by Chinese soldiers intent upon murdering them. This barrage not only saved the lives of the people in this house, who afterwards escaped over the city wall, but with the first boom of heavy gunfire bugles blew all over the city, officers appeared as if by magic, and the attacks on foreigners most abruptly ceased. I have been informed by at least 20 missionaries who were at various points in the city that this barrage unquestionably saved their lives...
...that know him" that only a now invisible emergency would make him contemplate candidacy. Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, for example, went on record as being quite convinced. Despatches from Pittsburgh said that W. L. Mellon, the Secretary's nephew and Republican State Chairman of Pennsylvania, had revealed a boom, with the Secretary at its centre, for Charles Evans Hughes, with whom Secretary Mellon lately crossed the Atlantic. Both the Messrs. Mellon quickly denied that there was any Mellonized boom for anyone at this juncture, but Secretary Mellon admitted that Mr. Hughes now was his personal choice...
...occasion of Colonel Lindbergh's official visit to Dayton there was no scowling, no muttering. City and county offices were ordered closed at noon. No department store displayed satirical advertisements. Nothing was said about back alleys. And the Dayton Daily News said: "Lindbergh Lasts. . . . The longevity of this Lindbergh 'boom' is as remarkable as anything in connection with Lindbergh's feat...
...State Lodge. Also, Mr. McKelvie had been at the President's South Dakota Executive Office just before making his speech and was reported to have gone over it with Everett Sanders, Secretary to the President. Thus reporters, logical, deductive, concluded that he had officially . opened fire on the Lowden boom and prophesied that the onetime Governor of Nebraska would be the sometime pre-convention Coolidge Manager in the farm belt...
...soon and frequently in educational journals by abolishing lectures; instituting an informal course in things bookish; and coming out for frankness about professionalism in college athletics. He made Rollins College sound like a sensible little institution with no frills or fads about it. Nothing was far ther from the boom spirit of Florida and the spirit of gigantism in higher learning than this college at which some 240 responsible students were gathered around a retired liberal editor to improve themselves and society...