Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest fight to increase the maximum estate tax from 20% (in the bill) to 25%. "What has made possible the perpetration of these taxing outrages at the present time?" said he. "Let me tell you. Bryan is dead, Wilson is dead, Roosevelt is dead, La-Follette is dead, Gompers is dead. They may have differed in many matters, but if they were all living they would unite in their opposition, to this bill. . . . And now may I mention the names of some other leaders on this side? You will recognize them as I mention them? Clark, DeArmond, James, Kitchin, Padgett...
...partisan tax bill and sent it to the Senate?almost unanimously, almost without a change. So the bill went to the Senate where a half of that body (more or less, no one can yet say) were sharpening their claws to tear it to pieces, prepared to fight over every hair on its body, with the chances nearly equal whether it will emerge the same creature or quite another. But Senate leaders none the less expressed a hope that it would emerge before March...
...like the notables in the boxes, were celebrating the formal opening of Madison Square Garden. There have been preliminary events in the new Garden-a six-day bicycle race, some amateur bouts, a championship fight-but the hockey was the fashionable start of Promoter Tex Rickard's entertainment centre. Therefore the notables in the boxes, like the men on the ice, had been led to display an interest in professional hockey, in "Les Canadiens," in the Prince of Wales Cup, which will go to the team which wins the league championship. John Ringling, Rosamond Pinchot, Frank Crowninshield, Mayor Hylan...
...used to do all the cooking and clean the house and help me with the washing. He scrubbed and wrung the clothes. Then we used to sit in front of the radio when there was a fight broadcast and hug each other when his man was winning. . +. Oh, he was a fine boy. He wouldn't hurt anyone. . . . Just mischievous...
...order to get favor with white people, he found one had merely to fight. Accordingly, when the War was over, he started to earn his living in the prize-ring. His naive but effective antics made him a good drawing card, and before long he found himself standing under enormous arc lights in the Velodrome Buffalo in Paris while 50,-000 people shrieked and Georges Carpentier, "Gorgeous Orchid Man," world's light-heavyweight champion, twisted helplessly at his feet...