Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only grudgingly allowed him to send out for a sandwich and what Mr. Horan later described as "a bottle of water." Over and over and over the Agents asked him how and from whom he obtained the secret details of the new Anglo-French naval agreement (TIME, Aug. 13 et seq.), first scooped and published throughout the U. S. by Hearst newspapers...
First came famed Sculptor John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, who threw the image of his design upon the cliff with a gigantic stereopticon and marked the outlines accordingly. Feverishly vexed was Mr. Borglum when his contracts were cancelled. He smashed his models (TIME, March 2, 1924 et seq.). Said he: "Am l a plumber to be hired by a committee? I am not. They say that I have loafed on the job, don't they? There isn't a corpuscle of my blood that loafs." The Stone Mountain Association appointed Virginian Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman to succeed Mr. Borglum...
...there is considerable animus towards both the Presidential candidates. "That Al Smith" would soon have the Pope of Rome prancing around in the White House, say the Friendship folk. As for Mr. Hoover, he is the man who took all our bread and sugar away during the War and "et" it himself. "Just look how fat he is," say the Friendship housewives. Mrs. Abbie Simmons Fernald won't have even a Hoover vacuum cleaner in her house...
...finally arose and spoke. The line about "ladies" having "along with men an equal vote" refers to the chief accomplishment of the Baldwin Cabinet, namely enfranchisement of 5,000,000 young British women by the passage of the famed Equal Franchise ("Votes for Flappers") Bill (TIME, Aug. 13 et ante...
...Highest Feed Barrister in Great Britain" Sir John Simon prepared to sail at once for India, there to continue the labors of his "Indian Statutory Commission" (TIME, Jan. 30 et seq.). Sir John, as Chairman of the Commission, is directing a gigantic research into whether it is advisable for Parliament to grant or withhold a greater measure of Indian self government...