Word: chases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Share, to whom he had sold his own power company a few months earlier. His son-in-law, Jose Emilio Obregon. sometimes called the "Wood Louse" because of his handling of shiploads of lumber donated to Cuba by the American Red Cross after the 1926 hurricane, was manager of Chase National Bank's Havana branch (1927-31). The Chase Bank first loaned the Machado Government $30,000,000, paid off by an issue of gold , bonds payable in 1945; then another $20,000,000 which is still frozen on its hands. Cubans like to add some additional data: Electric...
...Mexico's caddies distinguished himself at all. Esteban Reyes, a half-Indian nicknamed "Pajaro" because he swoops about the court like a small dark bird, was particularly eager to do well because he was playing on the courts of the Chapultepec Sports Club where he used to chase balls. But fair-haired young Clifford Sutler of New Orleans, playing lazily, beat him 6-1, 6-0, 6-1. The only satisfaction the crowd got the first day was the one set that small, slight Dr. Ricardo Tapia-who has been Mexican singles champion for the last five years, whose...
...fantastic playfulness. A swarm of canary chicks will escape Mickey's cage, light in unison on a table. Suddenly they all go into a dance, do a double shuffle, a stationary skating motion and bump fundaments by twos. Audiences roar with astonishment. Mickey's cat and dog chase one another into a pair of drawers on a line. The drawers stand up and do a buck & wing. A bedspring rises on end. Mickey twangs the strings and it becomes a harp. Anything may take on life and humanity, express itself. A singing bird does its scales like...
Immediately after the double murder the enraged citizenry of Loudoun County put their horses and hounds to hunting George Crawford instead of a fox. Leader of the chase was Brigadier General William Mitchell, of Air Service renown, at whose home Mrs. Ilsley had visited the evening before her death. But George Crawford was not to be found, a fact which possibly saved him from a lynching. Nevertheless he was indicted for the murder. Exactly one year later the police of Boston fished up from the dregs of the city's unemployed on a petty larceny charge a Negro...
...overthrow of Ghandi at this juncture? He is successfully marching his people towards political emancipation from a foreign yoke--a condition that must precede any other desired change. This first revolution is not consummated yet. Its hard won gains may be easily lost in a Will o' the Wisp chase for communism...