Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Hoover won his fight and sent...
...better and a nobleman goes up to his roof for the same purpose. The raid in the fog, brilliantly photographed, is the justification of an unconvincing anecdote about a British aviator (John Garrick) and a waitress (Helen Chandler) in a camp canteen. Best shot: crowds in Whitechapel watching the fight...
...Warren vacancy. Since 1917 he has been Wyoming's Republican National Committeeman. Like his predecessor a wealthy sheep rancher, Senator Sullivan grew up with the West, prospered with its oil. He lives at Casper in the State's finest mansion. Plain, bighearted, full of fight or banter, Irishman Sullivan was undisturbed by reports that the Senate might question his right to membership because of a quirk juggled into the Wyoming law by a Republican legislature to prevent one-time (1925-27) Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross from appointing a Democrat in case Senator Warren died...
...Litvinov not long afterward, and she had a great many things in mind. They bear importantly on the strained relations between Washington and Moscow, relations which creaked last week when Statesman Stimson politely reminded Russia and China in identic notes of their obligation under the Kellogg Pact not to fight, only to be told by Comrade Litvinov with blazing scorn to mind his business...
After hearing Graham McNamee describe the Dempsey-Tunney fight of 1927, a fairly hardboiled newspaperman* wrote: "Tears, murders, fever were in that voice. . . . I thought from time to time he was going to break down and cry. The emotional load was too great for a human heart...