Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...face value, this suggestion was but a blunt, practical expression of an ideal often mouthed but seldom practised by Congressmen after a general election. But coming from whom it did, it led to reconsideration of two little-discussed features of the Democratic outlook. One feature, forgotten in the turmoil of the Smith defeat, was Vice President-Reject Robinson's continued presence in the Senate. With President-Reject Smith retiring to private life and Governor-Elect Roosevelt taking his place in New York, the party's official Number Two Man had been all but forgotten by commentators...
...While vacationing in Paris incognito, last week, King Alexander of Jugoslavia prankishly shaved off the most characteristic feature of his face-a small black mustache...
...sure that, having waited his turn, he may speak his grievance to the Comrade President and warm his stomach with scalding tea from the never-out presidential samovar. Each peasant knows that he may address the President of Russia familiarly as "Tovaristch" and that the kindly, bearded face of Kalinin will wrinkle in a warm, genuine smile when he greets the humble guest "Tovaristch" in return. No wonder the Son-of-Ivan has been steadily reelected President* since 1919. No wonder his heart was sore, last week, when Dictator Joseph Stalin proposed in Isvestia to deal at "Rich Peasants...
...defiance of the enemies of Harvard's institutions the Sophomores appropriately garbed, held an imposing funeral procession and services. A coffin was provided, a foot-fall placed within it, and a grave was dug, while all had an opportunity to look for the last time on the face of their "dear departed friend" and hero of many battle. Then "Football Fight, um," symbolizing the game, was buried in the Delta amid the wails and lamentation of the mourners. When the grave was filled gravestones of black board were placed at the head and foot with the following epitaph...
While there is nothing indicating that this lineup is definitely that which will face the Eli in the Bowl tomorrow afternoon, there is no cause to believe that Coach Horween is contemplating any shifts. These often have proven themselves to be the strongest and most dependable combination all season, and the fact that they are all in condition and ready to meet the Blue is the best indication that the Crimson will put on the field one of the strongest elevens in a good many years...