Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Foreign Legion. Years of pumping machine gun bullets into Syria's more savage tribes finally brought peace in 1927. Under French dominance, the so- called "Syrian Republic" was proclaimed and provided with a Constitution and a Sheik Premier. It was he, the potent Sheik Taj-ed-Din Effendi, who made Syria news last week...
Solemnly the priests waited upon Sheik Taj-ed-Din. "Excellency, the Yo-Yo is the reason for the drought!" they cried. "The up-and-down movement of these infidel tops counteracts the prayers of the pious for rain. Allah is angry! Rain will never fall again in Syria while the wicked play with...
...gave up and announced, "It was all due to a misunderstanding." Chicagoans felt that the Hertz-McCulloch group allowed him to remain as president for sentimental reasons. Last week he resigned, was succeeded by William Murphy Collins, 55, oldtime Chicago restaurant man who sold Philip Henrici's ("No Orchestral Din") to the Thompson chain in 1929. Four days before President Thompson resigned Mr. Collins, also a large stockholder, was made chairman of the company...
...group of neighbors and admirers who had come up the hill to pay their respects. He had come into the State during the night, been met in the morning at Sacramento by Governor Rolph, getting off his train at Oakland to ferry across San Francisco Bay amid a din of factory and boat whistles, roaring airplanes, booming guns on the Presidio. The sidewalks of Market Street were packed solidly with cheering populace as his cortége moved through. At the civic centre Herbert Hoover went up to a balcony and said: "I accept this welcome not as President...
Suddenly an unearthly din disturbes the peaceful quiet of the night as the distant boom of a gun repounds through the hills. Bells in every division of barracks clang furiously. A group of men the Bell Cats start blowing bugles and beating on drums as if their very lives depended upon the ferociousness with which they did it. This is reveille at the United States Military Academy...