Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sharp burst of ejaculations from within. Mr. Mc-Kenna's head entered the President's office just as the President answered, "None," to a news correspondent who asked if he would add anything to the sentence, "I do not choose to run for President in nineteen twenty-eight...
Said Theodore Roosevelt: "He has been an intimate friend of the family since the days when I was only eight or nine years old and when he and my father used to take all of us children on walks with them on Sundays...
Detective Thomas Tunney, brother of champion Fisticuffer Gene Tunney, brought some comfort to perturbed police when he apprehended one Charles Colze, who, while employed in the Natural History Museum of Manhattan as porter, had carried off eight fine bird-of-paradise plumes...
After the wedding, however, as the groom started to carve the wedding cake, eight late arrivals at Grande Anse pushed up even closer than they had dared trespass during the service itself. They were camera and cinema men with but one duty in the world, to photograph as far as they could...
...physician, usually known to someone in the attending group, frequently a policeman, I am asked to give assistance. Over and over again I have treated and bandaged a victim, carried him off in my car, or had him conveyed to the nearest hospital. I have attended at least eight such cases in the past three months. I make my living from my work and am not a professional philanthropist. Therefore my services should be paid for. Yet not one of the eight whom I have attended has responded to my request for the payment of a fee for services rendered...