Word: forwarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stand aside, ye flabby ones! Stand aside ye fainthearted, ye who fear reprisals from power corporations and their wealthy and powerful allies! Ye who are unafraid will go forward with us in this issue that must be settled right if the Nation is to preserve a Government of the people, free and unfettered...
Latest returns showed that exactly one vote was cast for the rival candidate, Dr. Jorge E. Boyd, put forward by Don Belisario Porras, onetime (1912-16; 1920-24) president and leader of the opposition. Only one opposition vote was cast, because adherents of that party strictly obeyed Don Belisario Porras when he exhorted them to boycott the polls last fortnight after liberal police had seized fifteen opposition leaders, one a retired capitalist, and popped them into jail as "revolutionaries...
...went into a clinch with my head down, something I never do. I plunged forward, and my partner's head came up and butted me over the left eye, cutting me and dazing me badly...
...most sizable U. S. cities, the policemen at traffic stops or walking their beats in residential districts make a practice of accosting peaceful citizens several times a year and shoving forward a printed ticket in a purposeful way. The ticket often resembles, in color and size, the card that one gets for speeding, parking without lights or committing a nuisance. The citizen's relief is great when he finds that he has not been arrested, that the ticket is merely an admission to the next policemen's ball or euchre-fest or field day. The citizen now exhibits...
...some of the blood off his face, got him on his feet for the eleventh round. Courageously, he delivered two or three blows, but received a dozen which made his knees bend and his back feel the ropes. Referee Edward Forbes, night sports-editor on the Brooklyn Eagle, stepped forward and stopped the fight, awarding Champion Tunney what is called a technical knockout. Heeney's head was drooping and there was a liquid in his eyes in addition to blood. Tunney went over to him, put two arms on his shoulders, said: "Tom, you are a game man." . . . Promoter...