Word: catches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dissatisfaction of Turks at the action of the U. S. Senate. The U. S., said Dictator Kemal, in substance, does not understand that the "Terrible Turk" of Ottoman days is extinct. . . . The Young Turks of today are trying harder and with more success than any other backward people to catch up with the march of civilization...
...under his arm a bass viol. Turning the instrument over, he showed three great cracks to the comedian. "How about getting the heat turned off in this the-alre?" he asked. But Lewis, not taken aback by this declared, "What! and have all of us and our little ladies catch cold,-to save that!" and he pointed disdainfully, "Why that was once just a little fiddle which got the mumps, and then look how it grew!" He opened the door graciously and the base violinist squeezed out of the room again...
...showing ability will be eligible for the University Boxing Tournament which will be held toward the latter part of March and culminates the boxing season. Coach Conley desires all men interested to report to him Wednesday afternoon in order that as much progress as possible be made to catch up with the other classes which have already begun...
...Referred to the judiciary committee a resolution offered by Congressman LaGuardia of New York demanding impeachment of Federal Judge Frank Cooper of Albany, N. Y., on the grounds of intriguing with spies to catch bootleggers whom he later tried...
Recent close association with the efforts of famous men had somewhat addled his brain. He did not realize that clocks do not run backwards smoothly. And so his glorious historical pageant merely peeps groggily from behind the swinging pendulum. We catch a fleeting glimpse of Arthur's nightshirt and Cyrano's nose, but they are distorted to no effect. Yet Lampy slumbers on. He snores. He wheezes. The shades of the past present themselves in a villianous, not to say poisonous, gallimafray...