Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject the four tense months in Charleston that culminated in the bombardment of Fort Sumter, Author Heyward has brought to light a whole shining age. Peter Ashley-a carefully unimpassioned but compelling tale that even Abolitionist-grandsired readers will be loath to leave-makes vivid and convincing a crucial scene in U. S. history...
...main difficulty in electing Hicks is furnished by Blake's divorced wife. Bribed to do so by the opposition, she inveigles Hicks into a mountain cabin and wins his clothes at cards. Blake & associates arrive in time to prevent Candidate Hicks from being publicly shamed by this crucial buffoonery. Adapted by Courtenay Terrett and the late Joseph Jackson from an anonymous story, The Dark Horse is novel, funny. Good shot: Hicks, when he has memorized one of President Lincoln's speeches to use in a debate, listening to his opponent deliver the same speech...
...Prince of Wales watched him sink a 20-ft. putt for a birdie on the 14th. At the 18th he needed a 4 for a 74. He smashed a perfect drive and asked his caddy, Ernest Daniels, "What club?" Caddy Daniels gave him the No. 3 iron. This last crucial shot was straight and safe. Two careful putts gave Sarazen a 72 hole total of 283, two strokes lower than Bobby Jones's record...
...budget ($20,000 this year) it is in contact with some 80 Race Relations groups throughout the land, hopes to see one in every community where race problems exist.* During the past year the Commission has found, to its vexation, much discrimination in unemployment relief. Says the report: "The crucial situation between whites and Negroes was dramatically impressed upon America last year by the flare-up of lynching...
...last the suffering populace could stand it no longer, began to advance on the White House. Blockaded? the Presi dent and his family lived on tinned beef and dried apricots until, at the crucial moment, Julius, the missing Secretary, re appeared. He brought with him Man- That-Jumps-Like-a-Flea, an Osage Indian who was to save them all. The complaint of the raging mob outside was that Throttlebottom, the Vice President, had not a Constitutional amount of Indian blood. A transfusion appeased the mob and the day was saved. Ex-President Wintergreen concludes: "I had done my duty...