Word: catching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the balloting began, rumors raced from as far away as Cherbourg, France. There, something caused General John Joseph Pershing to race dramatically by motor to catch the S. S. Leviathan. Landing in New York, he refused curtly to discuss politics, seemed annoyed when Mayor Harry Mackay of Philadelphia told newsmen that when he lunched with him in Paris the day before the Leviathan sailed, the general had made no plans for returning to the U. S. The speed, the name, the talk that a Republican was needed to attract the Veterans' vote, combined to make some people suspect...
Sometimes horse flesh is so deftly cooked, so tastily disguised as to be chomped with gusto by U. S. tourists in Paris-chiefly at certain hotels with English or American names and a superfluity of catch-babbitt bathrooms...
...anecdote told me recently by an American friend. It seems that one of your schoolmasters had asked a lad to form a sentence using the word 'diadem.' The pupil replied, 'People who drink bootleg diadem sight quicker than those who don't. . . .' You catch my meaning, I am sure...
...attack for the Crimson team, while J. N. Barbee '28 held the visitors in check, allowing only five scattered hits and but one base on balls. The fielding gem of the day came in the eighth inning when W. B. Jones '28, in right field, made a diving catch which robbed Scammon, the visiting third baseman, of a two-bagger...
...came about: While a million radios were still being tuned in to catch the proceedings: while campaign managers were still figuring with frantic pencils the delegates claimed and the delegates secured: even before the chairman stood upon the platform and delivered the quadrennial inveighment against smoking, the issue was settled. Cold water, floods of it poured over the fireworks, and the melancholy farmers could not even rouse a dull "siss!" for all their trying. The anti-Hoover scandal sheets were futile and with no goal before them, they can only fill wastebaskets or memory books...