Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ulysses S. Grant said: "I am not nor have I ever been a candidate for renomination. I would not accept a nomination if it were tendered, unless it should come under such circumstances as to make it an imperative duty?circumstances not likely to arise...
...time will come, later, when any Turk can wear any hat he chooses or none!" said Tewfik Rushdi Bey with emphasis "But the fez was a symbol and had to be abolished because it represented a psychological state that was wrong...
When night comes down on the eastern U. S., a row of bright eyes reaching from the Atlantic coast over the Alleghenies to the Great Lakes, begins a vigil that lasts till dawn. Motoring through the mountains you come to these eyes one by one, 10 to 25 miles apart. They are searchlights and all night they sweep the sky in steady circles, their narrow shafts swinging around heaven from anchorages on hilltops. For miles ahead you watch one, catching its brief flash as the beam swings high over your road. Drawing nearer, you see a reflector revolving...
...Calvin Coolidge might do after March 4, 1929, if his "choice" of not running for re-election is respected by the country. And a habit-ridden correspondent of the New York Times wrote the following, which promptly appeared on the front page of that authoritative daily: "Many offers have come to him [Mr. Coolidge] to write, and it is understood that some of the trustees of Amherst College, of which Frank W. Stearns [Mr. Coolidge's close friend] is one, may offer him the presidency of that institution...
Year in and year out John Fosdick's unbounded domesticity has consisted of smoking cigars over the evening newspaper while his good wife sits by, bored. Come a pair of Mr. Fosdick's onetime sweethearts to vamp him. For a while the sirens disrupt the family, giving Mr. & Mrs. an opportunity to realize how dear to their hearts was that old homely destitution. They make up, promising each other that "everything shall be just the same as it was before." In the end John Fosdick is seen smoking cigars over the evening newspaper while his good wife sits...