Word: catching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the speech was over the Marine Band, never more appropriately, struck up "Hail to the Chief." The President said "Goodbye" to Mr. Coolidge, who edged off to catch his train home. A great many people followed Mr. Coolidge, but many more remained to offer moist hands to the President and first lady before they could enter their open automobile for the drive back to the White House...
Herbert Hoover went into the White House last week as the Dry Hope of all U. S. Prohibitors. He will, they assured one another, be the right man at last to catch and hold that greased and perhaps blind pig called Prohibition. They recalled Harding and the well-filled whiskey flask (for medicinal purposes) in his White House office desk, and Coolidge, dry as a Vermont tinder box but deficient in the hot crusading flame of the true prohibitor. Now-bless the day-had come a President in whom for years has been seen a steady, scientific glow of enthusiasm...
Berkeley declared that, despite German denials, bombs containing the bacilli of bubonic plague were unquestionably dropped upon troops of the British Fifth Army in 1916. Asked what was done about the bacilli, Sir Berkeley said reminiscently, "We encouraged cats and owls." (Cats and owls catch rats, which carry fleas, which carry bubonic bacilli...
Pinchas Rutenberg, in short, is an ex-Russian, an ex-revolutionary, an ex-soldier of Tsar Nicholas II, the ex-Chief of Police of the Kerensky ex-government of Russia ; and furthermore is favorably known in England for having done his very best as Chief of Police to catch and hang Lenin and Trotsky...
Chicago's police commissioner, William F. Russell, who lately staged a spectacular round-up of the Chicago underworld-and then released his catch-professed great fury. "It's a war to the finish!" he cried. "I've never known a challenge like this. . . . We're going to make this the knell of gangdom in Chicago." Between Chicago's police and the Federal agents assigned to make Chicago dry, exists a state of feeling not unlike the inter-gang hatreds of the underworld. Assistant U. S. Prohibition Administrator Fred D. Silloway was quick to make capital...