Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voices of candidates, possible and impossible, sound only very faintly through the din of investigations, charges, and counter-charges now filling Washington. Whoever the next President may be, he surely has an aversion to standing with both feet on his own platform...
Probably the most interesting piece to be seen is a gift of Sadajino Yamanaka. It is a large Siamese bronze of the great god Bodhisattva. Although the hands and parts of the feet are slightly worn by the effects of time the squatting figure is still very impressive...
Already Will Hays, Chairman of the National Committee in 1920, has been ingulfed by the rising tide to graft, and the waters have even beat menacingly, if ineffectively at the feet of Secretary Mellon, while the spray has carried even as far as the Chairman of the present Committee William M. Butler. The only hope the G. O. P. heads can have is to prove that no men now of rank in the party as it now stands were involved in any of the ramifications of the Teapot Dome affair, and if this fails, their prospects of a third successive...
...Bird had been refused a pilot's license by the San Diego Air Control Board. His home-made monoplane had also been pronounced unfit to fly. Yet last week he took it into the air with four passengers, nose-dived 300 feet to earth while trying to avoid a midair crash with a big Maddux plane. Mr. Bird and his four passengers were killed instantly. The home-made monoplane was a twisted wreck in a field near Oldtown, Calif...
...Davis of Columbus, Ohio, and was not noticed because it also appeared on the face of his opponent, a young man named Bert Duryee of Wichita, Kan. Without taking off his cracked and faded straw hat Davis tossed horseshoes at an iron stake driven into the ground 40 feet from where he stood. Duryee was not quite so calm; the crowd seemed to bother him and before he got going Davis had a lead of nearly 20 points which he held to the end of the game, beating Duryee 50 to 30, and so winning a diamond studded medal...