Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called because in his forgeries he always chose a name containing the letter K, ended up in Hollywood with a contract in the movies. Nobody seemed to know who he was and all through the play suspicion veered among the occupants of a Hollywood lunchroom. When suspicion was not veering, gags appeared; these were somewhat amusing...
...Horan chose to sign...
...this time all Princesses who had become by marriage Tsaritsas of Russia had been exclusively of German origin for a century and a half. But now this precedent was shattered, and the Grand Duke (Crown Prince) Nicholas of Russia chose to wed the little Danish princess. There is no question that they were infatuated. But he was stricken with paralysis before the nuptials could take place. On his death bed the Grand Duke Nicholas called in his fiancee and his bull-necked brother, the Grand Duke Alexander, and bade them wed. They obeyed...
Because General George Washington fought the Revolutionary War to a smart finish, Americans thought he would make a good peacetime President, nor were they disappointed. Precisely similar was the reasoning of Chinese, last week, when they chose the first President of the new Chinese Nationalist Government (TIME, May 2, 1927). Naturally and inevitably their choice fell upon the Nationalist Revolution's doughty "Man of Victory," famed Marshal Chiang Kai-shek...
Again unfavorable weather loomed. Dr. Eckener chose to linger in the vicinity of Bermuda while the passengers, restless, longed for speedy finish, tired of the gramophone. The sausages were gone, food was being rationed...