Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peculiarly Yankee, a blue-bellied, Vermont Yankee to the core. He had exhibited absolutely no initiative. He had spoken no memorable phrase. ... He played no poker, drank no liquor, made few friends. And Mrs. Coolidge, who had come with him from the duplex apartment in Northampton, Massachusetts, for which they had been paying twenty-seven dollars a month all their married life, and who moved with him into one of Washington's rather grand but noisy hotels, had to work hard, those first seventeen Washington months of the Vice-Presidency, keeping him awake after bedtime in Northampton at nine...
...autumn of 1902, speaking about Woodrow Wilson, Mr. Pierce predicted: "We will see him inside of ten years Senator, a Governor, then the President of the United States." Only the Senator part failed to come true...
When grilled by counsel for Scotland Yard as to how he, as a father, could possibly justify such an attitude, Mr. Savidge made a sturdy, forthright reply which could only have come from a lower class Briton who knows that he may never aspire even to the rank of gentleman...
...Babies come crying into the world. They cry for air but in many cases the tears are gummy with pus, the little eyelids swollen and glued together. "Babies sore eyes" (ophthalmia neonatorum) is a common complaint. Gonorrhoeal infection is almost always the cause; contracted from the mother, or in an occasional instance from infected hands or articles. Total blindness is often the result, how often is indicated by the 25% of all blindness in children ascribed to it. This dark, tragic disease may be entirely prevented by therapy during pregnancy; may even be entirely cured, after having been contracted...
...Come on, let us smile...