Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quick to his feet rose New York's short, swart Congressman La Guardia. The La Guardia corpuscles, and many a La Guardia constituent, are Latin. Mr. La Guardia arose to defend the fame of that late great Latin, Christopher Columbus. "The House,'' he cried, "ought not to attempt to write history." While expressing 'the greatest admiration and love and affection for the people of Iceland." he clung to the "tangible historical record of the discovery by Columbus...
...said: "If and when the Government has made it possible for the industry to cooperate and conserve and that co-operation and conservation are not forthcoming, then no one will be more insistent than myself in urging rigid government coercive regulation." The word coercive brought the industry to its feet in instant protest...
French army headquarters at Rabat, 100 miles away, moved quickly to rescue the beleaguered garrison. Three squadrons of bombing planes zoomed into the air. Eight thousand troops of the Foreign Legion soaped their horny feet, filled their canteens with good red pinard in preparation for the long march to Ait Yacoub...
Quite as anxious as Britain's Ramsay MacDonald for friendly relations with the U. S. is Japan's courtly Prime Minister, 66-year-old Baron Giichi Tanaka. Breaking the traditional oriental silence, last week, the grizzled Prime Minister, in his stocking feet, courteously received Correspondent Barnet Nover of the Buffalo News. A Japanese of the old school, Baron Tanaka never wears shoes except on formal state occasions. Rheumatic, he must be supported by a stalwart valet while being shod...
...Englishmen registered times and distances in their Stamford Bridge meet which were disappointing, and below expectations. Nevertheless Sartain of Cambridge broad jumped 22 feet, 8 1-2 inches and his team mate R. W. Evans was but two inches short of the mark. Green of Cambridge ran the mile in 4 minutes, 22 1-5 seconds, and Guttteridge of Cambridge was clocked in 1 minute, 57 1-5 seconds for the half mile. J. M. Pumphrey of Oxford ran three miles in 14 minutes, 59 seconds, while F. W. Teitcherine of Cambridge was just over 59 seconds for the quarter...