Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principal speaker, his ears must last week have heard strange sounds and subversive doctrine. For, attending a farmers' meeting at Ardmore, S. Dak., the President listened while Democratic Governor Bulow of South Dakota assailed the Republican tariff. The Governor, tall, lean, ruddy complexioned, with a long, thin face and rather a dominating nose, maintained that farmers must be given fair treatment if "this country is to long survive." Governor Bulow felt that if the "discriminatory" tariff were not remedied, the farmer would have to be given assistance in the form of "artificial price-fixing." Even this...
...swimming. Even in places where the waters have more nearly sub sided, people find a foot of mud and slime in their houses, or sit on their porches and look out upon water-logged fields where nothing will grow. Where cotton has been planted, the farmers are faced with a new menace - a pestilence of worms which cut through the young plants as though with sharp saws. Said C. P. Seab, agricultural demonstration agent for the parish of Concordia: "In all America there are no people more penniless, un happy and with so little hope as these. "And Sheriff...
...under the head of an attacker of the present State, said: "The assassination of Kevin O'Higgins is murder and inexcusable from any standard. I am confident no Republican organization is responsible for it, or would give it countenance. It is the duty of every citizen to set his face sternly against anything of the kind. It is a crime that cuts to the root of all representative government, and no one who realizes what it means could do otherwise than condemn and deplore...
...conspiracy" was only a detestable cloak of subterfuge under which the agents of a debased gendarmerie had ravished from a hungry infant its proper milk. By tens, and finally by hundreds, the Deputies demanded that the Government order Mme. Montard released. Premier Raymond Poincaré, great War President of France, faced an extremely dubious and trying dilemma. Obviously the woman could not be kept in jail; but the Cabinet had lost much of its prestige when M. Daudet escaped, and to back down tamely now in the matter of M. Daudet's telephone operator would be to lose still more "face...
Billy was drawing the window curtains apart and asking Dr. Watson if he wanted to see the people across the street who were watching them. "Watson had taken a step forward when the bedroom door opened, and the long, thin form of Holmes emerged, his face pale and drawn, but his step and bearing as active as ever. With a single spring he was at the window, and had drawn the blind once more...