Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wile, able Washington correspondent for many newspapers, had from Mr. Daugherty the secret of his physical " comeback " after a breakdown which was aggravated seriously by the death of Mr. Harding...
Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce: "My department published a news-release entitled Foodstuffs 'Round the World. It bore the headline: 'Swiss Cheese Stages Strong Comeback...
...first two innings and knocking one patcher from the box, the University baseball team paved the way for a 13-7 victory over the Massachusetts Agricultural nine at Soldiers Field on Saturday afternoon. With Brunner replacing Holley on the mound, the visitors made a courageous attempt at a comeback for four innings but late in the sixth the team broke under the strain and a series of errors brought the Crimson three more runs...
...propensity. She insists on being his leading lady. In rehearsal she seems all right. On the opening night she thinks she is all right. So that when her husband conscientiously explains to her that she not only was not good, but was absurd, her pride suffers a fall. Her comeback, however, is immediate. She gives him a devil and deep-sea to choose between. Either she continues to act or she leaves...
...COVERED WAGON.-The publicity experts have been making themselves objectionable about this picture for some time. They have proclaimed it in loud and raucous tones as something like nothing else in heaven or on earth. Now the picture is here and there is no comeback. The publicity was all an understatement. It is a masterpiece of restraint, of realism, of power. In it are crystallized the rigors and magnificences of the pioneers who wound slowly over the 2,000 miles of the Oregon Trail in '48, daring perils of Indians and starvation and rushing rivers...