Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Robert Clynes, shockheaded, beady-eyed, a leading Laborite of the moderate wing, thought the only element of surprise in the decision was that it had come so late. Added he: "Some of us have expressed our horror at the shooting of 20 Russians [in Russia] as an act of inexcusable murder. I cannot understand the mentality of those who denounce acts committed in one country and gloss them over when committed in another country. Murder is murder the whole world over...
...Casey, representative of the American Federation of Labor, much impressed, said, pandering: "We in America boast of our great republic and our great democracy, but we must come to England, Scotland and Ireland to observe pure democracy and to sit down to quench our thirst with anything we like...
...frowsy mother, who, when he was seven and still had his sight, must have been a golden beauty. His illusion of a pretty, black-eyed inamorata brings his first sex consciousness. It sweeps into his life with bewildering ecstasy, as the music of a symphony orchestra might come suddenly to a chanting savage. Into his world of sound, thus transposed by fancy to a heavenly harmony, intrude the raucous gratings of the boarding house. He hears his mother's paramour beating her. Sound can aim a gun as well as sight. He shoots the man dead. Other murders...
...that it contribute funds toward an international house of chemistry, proposed as a centenary memorial to Marcellin Pierre Eugene Berthelot, French chemist and politician, successor to Louis Pasteur as per- petual secretary of the Academy of Sciences. Reason: The request had come, through governmental channels; the American Chemical Society believed that any centralization of world science should be initiated by scientific societies...
Major Atkinson was guardian of those goal posts for all the millions of the British Empire. With men, horses and money he and his comrades had come 11,000 miles from India to try their fortune at Meadow Brook for the International Polo...