Word: bores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gentlemen, only the other day a great Berlin parade of spiked helmets occurred. There were 120,000. This is of mediocre interest for us, but one of the posters they carried bore the following inscription: 'From Trieste to Riga.' It is mad, paradoxical, grotesque, but it is a fact. Therefore the precise, fundamental duty of Fascist Italy is to reach a maximum strength with her armed forces on land, sea and air [repeated, prolonged applause...
Policeman Romero was vexed. He waited outside the club. When, some hours later, young Señor Calles stepped forth and entered his motor car, Policeman Romero fired upon him with a heavy army revolver. Strong men seized Policeman Romero from behind, as he continued to fire, bore him to the sidewalk. But already Señor Calles had slumped down in his seat...
Searchers among old U. S. Senate files discovered a petition presented to the Senate in 1912. This petition had been circulated by the National Anti-Third Term League, an anti-Roosevelt by-product of the 1912 campaign. It bore only the signature of the late Senator Henry W. Blair, then president of the Anti-Third Term League. Since a petition with only one signer presumably would not have been presented, the inference was that the other signatures were not preserved...
...Lady Astor bore a son to her first husband, Robert Gould Shaw; has borne four sons and one daughter to her second husband, Viscount Astor...
...score of other tables similar in most respects; a few yards off a mountain the water splashed merrily in the evening coolness. Somewhere an orchestra was playing softly. But all this was of minor interest to the wanderers; their interest was focused upon a white aproned individual who bore a number of tall round receptacles clinking upon a tray. He approached-and placed before each ein grosses helles'. The vision vanished, Alas, this is Boston...