Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last page he is standing up, waving back with his high hat, shouting, "I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way," in a motor sent to fetch him into audience with the Bey of Tunis, who probably wants, as everyone else does, some of his power, his money. Little Ogle, spared only by a check for vulgar cinema rights from the humiliation of hav-ing to borrow like the rest, abjures highbrow writing and is grateful for Olivia Tinker's hand in marriage. Mme. Momoro, hav-ing acquired what a devoted mother...
Turning to the King, Her Majesty said: "Will you fetch the photos we received this morning from Stockholm...
...left her jewels? That was what one Martina Davis was wondering as she stepped into the Manhattan shoe-store of Louis D'Ascali, known as "The Singing Cobbler." Why, only the night before, when she left with lilting Louis the shoes she had now come to fetch, she had still had the lost brooches, rings. She remembered how she had loitered in the store, chatting with D'Ascali about the days when he studied music in Milan. Tonight he was not so nice; why, he seemed positively mocking. Why did he not stop singing when she spoke...
...been a long time since the newspapers twittered over the skill of that courtly national champion, William J. Clothier. He was a gentleman of slow gesture and deliberate mien. He walked about the court with a sort of precise languor, as if moving, a little unwillingly, to fetch something for a lady. Last week people thought of Mr. Clothier. They were reminded of him by one Lewis N. White, a youth from Texas who was runner-up against Champion Tilden at Longwood...
Into the garden where clustered a whimpering lad, his pale mother, a few niched apples and a Seventh Day Adventist missionary there came a maid servant. In her hand she held a bottle of silver nitrate which the missionary, C. A. Haysmeir, had bid her fetch. The pale Korean mother glossed her son's felony with imploring tears. But Missionary Haysmeir picked up the brush portentously. He dipped it into the bottle of scarifying chemical...