Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, Chicagoans thought last week they could see rays of hope piercing the city's crime pall. A cigar store clerk outfoxed a thug, shot him dead. Another citizen, halted on Madison Street by the command "Hands up," was amazed to see his assailant fumbling through his own pockets, looking puzzled...
...final personal swan-song was: "I am just as anxious to see them [Democratic principles] succeed as I was when the party honored me with the nomination, and with all the vigor that I can command...
...Agent of the Soviet State in Manhattan. Mr. Bron is large, untidy, jovial, shrewd and bland. He is a University of Zurich Ph. D. He served apprenticeship to his present post of huge responsibility as Minister of Foreign Trade for the Ukraine. With all the emphasis at his booming command Saul G. Bron said: "Regardless of all difficulties and obstacles, one thing is clear to me, and that is that the harvest of 1927-28 has supplied the Soviet Union with a sufficient amount of grain, and therefore every necessity for grain imports, such as has been alleged in some...
...Palmer House Hotel was built, the castle was built in 1885. Thence Mrs. Palmer ruled as absolute empress of society; her invitations an accolade, a command. At the World's Fair, she was hostess to the Infanta Eulalie of Spain; Duke and Duchess d'Aragona, descendants of Columbus; Princess Schahovska, Prince Cernoski, and Prince Isenberg of Russia. Mrs. Palmer summoned, too, Prince Henry of Prussia. Prince Henry was disdainful. "Is royalty to be guest of an innkeeper's wife?" Royalty was. Prince Henry came...
Every convenience is here at your command and we stand ready to meet your inspection and patronage. We feel that nothing has been omitted in the appointments and dining facilities of Oxford Courts and logically it is a place for your regular luncheon and dinner appointments, after theatre tidbits, and social functions...