Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Such action would prove a distinct liability to him in November. Already eight States?Massa-chusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Illinois, Ohio, Texas and Mary-land?have passed resolutions condemning his use of the Army. When Assistant Secretary of War Davison tried to defend the President's action before the New York convention, he was booed and hissed ?but a censure resolution was beaten...
...pugnacious throng massed outside his office the President roared: "If the nation does not react to the fact of outrage it does not deserve to be a nation! [Cheers]. But my government knows how to defend the honor and dignity of the Fatherland! Viva Bolivia...
Generally, when innocence becomes bliss, farewell innocence. Not so with Authoress Stern's delightful hero and heroine. Both infant prodigies, sophisticated apparently from the cradle up, they blissfully defend their childlike birthrights through 567 pages of close novel-writing, through five or six years of their harum-scarum careers...
...year. Eight of the best college crews in the U. S. were at Poughkeepsie last week preparing for it. M. I. T. and Pennsylvania were considered "dark horses," that is, feeble, until Rusty Callow's Penn boat rowed a fast time trial two days before the race. Preparing to defend their championship under a new coach named Buck Walsh, Navy's oarsmen spent an afternoon at Kingston, 15 miles away, watching Max Schmeling train for his heavyweight championship fight against Jack Sharkey. In the Columbia boathouse last week there was no electric light, no telephone. The crewmen went...
...just as pleased last week. When he got a telephone call from Johnny Farrell, U. S. Open champion in 1928, he said: "Oh, boy, am I excited! . . . How are they taking it in New York?" Two days later, carrying the British Open Cup which he said he would defend next year, Sarazen sailed for the U. S. to play in the U. S. Open at Fresh Meadow Country Club, Flushing, L. I., his home course from...