Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reed. Candidate Reed stumped into California just in time to hear the Walsh boom begin. He had come, after a week in his own Midwest, from the wide Southwest, including Phoenix and Albuquerque. In the latter city, he had flayed New Mexico's defamed and pining Albert Bacon Fall and New Mexico's brusque, new, young figure, Senator Bronson Murray Cutting. His ire at Senator Cutting was aroused by the latter's voting to seat Senator-suspect Smith of Illinois. In the midst of a tirade, he was cut short by a heckler, Editor E. Dana Johnson...
Mayor William H. Gillespie of Pittston telegraphed President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America please to come and extinguish the feuds current between mine operators, contractors and two factions of the local mine union. Two other feudists had been slaughtered, a third wounded, in the past two months...
...House of the Jesuits at Rome there had come and yanked the ancient bellpull a decently dressed youth who announced himself as Signor De Angelis. He must, he said, he must make an important confession to good Father Tacchi-Venturi. The porter, rubbing sleepy eyes, told the youth that his desired confessor was immersed in study, could not be disturbed. Next day Signor De Angelis returned, yanked the bell still more violently, and prevailed upon the porter to usher him into the Jesuit's study...
...coming dispute between Italy and Serbia [Jugoslavia], outwardly we have no set policy, sympathy or antipathy toward either one of the disputants, nor to the subject of the dispute-Albania. "We have no allies outside of Russia who definitely have undertaken to come to our defense should the fatherland be invaded. In turn, we shall go to Russia's assistance should that country's territorial integrity be menaced by more than one power...
...employers of college graduates have come to the same conclusion, if the report of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company is to be accepted as typical. From among the ten thousand college graduates employed by that concern, those who ranked highest in college now hold the bighest position on its rolls, while there is found no similar analogy for those who excelled in extra-curriculum work. When allowance is made for the considerable number who are included in both categories, it will be seen that these figures go even farther than President Lowell's in upholding the value of scholastic...