Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supervise the elections anyway, whether Nicaragua adopted the new law or not. Their reason was that the anti-American party in Nicaragua was scheming to embarrass the U. S. by making the latter's "pacification" program seem more illegal than ever. Since the Nicaraguan election does not come until October, the immediate necessity for 1,000 more marines at Managua was obscure, except as moral support for the Administration's policy...
...Brand had come, not to praise Secretary Hoover, but to bury him. "I ask the President," he cried "to ask the resignation of Herbert Hoover...
...Representative McClintic, vociferous Oklahoman, respectfully informed him that "a Cabinet member ought to have sufficient judgment to know better." Mr. Wilbur blinked and stayed. Republican Leader Tilson got up to meet the storming Democrats with the ambiguous remark that it was a great pity that Cabinet officials did not come to Congress more often, and the Messrs. Hudson and Britten assured him that Secretaries Taft and Josephus Daniels used frequently to mingle with Congressmen on the floor of the House. Mr. Wilbur stayed to the bitter...
Although the case will not come up for trial until April 16th, General Currie made public, last week, a quantity of Staff reports which appeared to show that...
George Kelly is not the kind of dramatist one reads, except as a way to remember Judith Anderson in the part of Tony. But only when one reads him does realization come of the tremendous dependence that Kelly places on his leading ladies to make the feminine small talk "go". The small talk of George Kelly is more real than it has a right to be, and therefore more footling than ever the wasted words of life when entrusted to the hands of poor actors...