Word: cower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day, the convention opened. Mr. Lewis flayed the radicals. Casting an eye at Mr. Brophy, whom he had easily defeated for President, he said: "I could tell of slimy things." Radicals cowered. They continued to cower until, two days later, Radical Hapgood rose to criticize. Mr. Lewis pounded the desk, eyes flashing. He smelled a fight. "If you say another word," said he, "you'll have to be ejected" (on the grounds that he was not entitled to a seat). The young man hit a sergeant-at-arms on the left shoulder, but no one came to his rescue...
Engaged. Miss Lucretia Garfield, Bryn Mawr graduate, daughter of Harry A. Garfield, President of Williams College, to John Preston Cower, Assistant Professor at Williams...