Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sound at all bad in the dark. But it was the pants that got his reviewer. The pants are worn by two gentlemen named Herman and Seaman, or something like that, and you never saw two men do more with two pairs of pants in your life. They climb around in and on each other, and emerge from the scrimmage germinated in each other's nether clothing...
From the schools that furnished a background, the book goes to the years after the century's turn. The story of Roosevelt's climb runs through the story of trusts, meat-packing scandals, oil, railroads, the coal strike, Wall Street Finance...
...person of Handley F. Page*) last week announced that he had cut another step in the upward climb of the invisible precipices of the air. It is a niche which a slipping airplane can seize, grip firmly, and thus check its helpless spinning fall...
...native of Tennessee. Came from the ranks?bellboy, newsboy, bootblack, hotel waiter, head waiter, cowboy, miner, newspaper reporter, editor, publisher, president of the Negro Press Association, and was elected four times by acclamation. ... I put in our splendid education and health programs. I stand on my record. Let others climb on the bandwagon! Organization is my slogan...
This newspaper was called the Morning Journal. Later Mr. Hearst rechristened it the New York American. Reverting to title he brought out a little sister of the evening (the Evening Journal). These two papers were the steppingstones in Mr. Hearst's climb to red ink pinnacles of domination in the sensational newspaper field...