Word: cues
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tongue. A translator informed the audience that Mr. Tomski had said that the Soviet had "relieved bankers of the burden of banks, land owners of the burden of land, and factory owners of the burden of conducting factories." In the middle of these proceedings the organist got the wrong cue and burst into The International. After Comrade Tomski had finished a motion was proposed to substitute orations in Esperanto, which nobody could understand for any further speeches in Russian...
...executive branch of the Government. Step No. 1 was the transfer of the Patent Office from the Interior to the Commerce Department. For many moons, there has been general agreement that there ought to be a reorganization to get rid of duplication, overlapping functions and a thousand and cue causes of inefficiency for which poor organization is responsible. A special commission drew up a law for reorganization, but Congress has not enacted...
...inflict "scientific punishment" in true Italian style, after which he ejected the Communist violently out of a door into a cold, stone corridor. Farinacci, complacent, stalked back to his seat with the air of a man who had nobly performed a noble deed. The remaining Fascisti, taking their cue from Farinacci and totally oblivious of the entreaties of their more moderate comrades, flung 14 wriggling Communists from the Chamber...
...epilog, an answer. Schaefer won the bank, missed his shot; Hoppe, attempting a difficult around-the-table shot, failed, too; again Schaefer missed. The gallery shifted uncomfortably; gentlemen regarded one another in amazement. Were these scratchers the two greatest billiard players in the world? Hoppe chalked his cue, made a run of 86. This, the gallery thought, was something like it. The game went on. Neither man was at his best, but Hoppe was the smoother of the two. Then Schaefer got the balls against the cushion, began to run off shots suavely, rapidly. The twitching of his cue...
Came a great crashing in the wings of a stage just in front of the head table. President Brigham shot the cue: "Mr. Brown, what is that awful noise...