Word: downs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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*Had the dentists found the President in a better mood, they would have been interested, when he smiled, in his teeth. On the left side the upper molars are worn down, presumably by chewing pipes and cigars, to a peculiar slant which helped earn him his campaign sobriquet of "Beaver...
"Just now the Stock Market is badly run down," pontificated the Viscount in his Daily Mail, Britain's daily of largest circulation (1,989,043). "I am sorry to see that the wave of apprehension . . . is deluding some of the shareholders in my group of companies into throwing away...
As the returns came in on election night last week, opposition members gravely I-told-you-soed, for Premier Bruce not only went down to defeat, but carried the entire Nationalist party with him. Late returns gave the Nationalists only 15 seats in the new Parliament to 46 for Labor...
Ensued a squabble royal while the library stood inscriptionless. Wrathful Monsignor Ladeuze caused to be clandestinely prepared a second set of balustrade stones spelling: In Bella Reducta; In Pace Resti-tuta ("Destroyed In War; Restored In Peace"). The secret leaked out. Mr. Warren hired roustabouts and huskies to rush his...
Asked what he would do if the University of Louvain appealed, Architect Warren drew down his beetling brows and roared: "Carry the suit to the highest court! Fight to a finish!"