Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shuffling, foot-thumping, swaying line. One of the dancers was covered with small mirrors. Now and then some one whooped. Emmet Thompson, a young Kaw who has made millions in oil, directed the proceedings. He and most of the 2,000 other Kaws, Pawnees, Otos and Osages present had come in first-class automobiles...
...cigaret girl had just given her first yawn. The blonde from Showboat was explaining for the third time why her girl-friend could not come. The lawyer from an Ohio town was about to order more White Rock water "or sumpthing" The Butte, Mont., mining man was laughing at the song, which he had never heard before, of a girl named Anna, from Butte, Montana. It was, in other words, 1 o'clock in the morning and in Manhattan's livelier night clubs the evening was just beginning to bubble. In the streets outside, crowds at corner cigar...
...people of Belgium are 90% in favor of Cardinal Mercier's inscription. Students of the University, even the workmen who built the library, solidly demand the inscription. I have had people come up to me in the streets with their eyes streaming tears pleading with me not to abandon the fight but to remain firm. One of Herbert Hoover's own Wartime posters read: 'If seventy million Germans wept for a thousand years they could not make disappear the human miseries they caused in Belgium and Northern France...
...conservative, and no fool. He knows that the Communists of Vienna unquestionably possess supplies of arms and that not long ago they staged murderous riots. All would not be well in Austria if Bela Kun, the most prominent agitator in the employ of the Moscow Third International, should come to harm...
...founders of the trans-Atlantic telephone service expected that their income would come largely from business men who want things done efficiently, and in a hurry. But, last week, Frank Baldwin Jewett, vice president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, revealed that 43% of the trans-Atlantic phone calls have been of a social or frivolous nature, that 28% were miscellaneous, human interest calls, that 25% were business calls between bankers and brokers, that only 1% were between newspapermen...