Word: clung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From a work-buried Cabinet officer, which he had so enjoyed being that he half hoped President Coolidge would not accept his resignation, Herbert Clark Hoover had to change last week into the ruling party's actual, active heir presumptive. He clung to his secluded corner office in the Department of Commerce as long as possible, inspecting final reports, perfecting the next year's budget, bequeathing last orders to the large corps of minor executives whose number and loyalty had grown together since...
...envy of most women. Her silver Rolls-Royce flashed by at breakneck speed. Her horses invariably galloped. She even participated in an "outside loop," most dangerous of all stunts in air, with Capt. E. C. D. Herne as her pilot. (Her safety-strap broke during the loop, but she clung with amazing wit and courage to bracing wires, while her body swung outside the plane like a stone twirled on the end of a piece of string.) She was fond of animals, particularly horses and dogs, and one of the tragedies of her life was the death of her favorite...
...growing community like Douglaston we need a live wire. We tried to play ball on this proposition. We offered to take care of him for 18 months. But he became stubborn, showing his inability to realize what is best for the church." The pastor then told why he clung to the little white church where he had preached for the past ten years. "I am unwilling to accept dismissal at the hands of the vestry," he said. "I believe that the majority of the people are with me, and I have been given a unanimous vote of confidence...
Death sped unseen across a white-walled courtyard, passed up a marble stair, and seemed to pause, irresolute, last week, in the bedchamber of Rumania's greatest man. The room, warmed by a great tile stove, was cozy; and Prime Minister Jon Bratiano, 63, clung hard to warmth and life. He could not speak, for inflammation brought on by blood infection, had gagged his throat; but with a steady hand he wrote to the physicians who bent over him: "Do not be impatient. I shall make a good fight...
Aided by the great kicking and running of S. L. Batchelder '31, the University Freshman clung tenaciously to a six point lead, established in the second period of their contest with the Yale first year eleven, last Saturday, to win from their heavier Eli rivals. This is the second successive victory that a Harvard Freshman team has chalked up against the Blue since E. L. Casey '19 took over the Crimson coaching job, and also marks the close of an undefeated season for the 1931 eleven...