Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Mr. Sachs achieved his ambition. He came forward with a girl who swore that famed Philadelphia draft-dodger Bergdoll committed an immoral act with her, in Heidelberg, some three years ago. Mr. Sachs openly and publicly exulted when slacker Bergdoll was clapped into jail at Mosbach, Germany, while the Mosbach police "investigated...
None the less whenever Finance Minister Doumer attempted to come forward and effect a rational compromise on the various disputed items of the bill, the Cartelists rallied and rebuffed him by passing articles and amendments distasteful to him, notably an admittedly impracticable measure to require registration of all unregistered securities in order that they might be taxed more easily. This particular article passed the Chamber 287 to 233, although even its authors knew that it could never pass the Senate...
Scores of Parisians taxied to the Concert Mayol. They all but crowded out the foreigners who have long since found that the Concert, which is just off the Grands Boulevards, is more convenient, more daring and more chic than the Folies Bergére, farther up Montmartre. Elbowing their way forward the eager Parisians were waited upon by the most insolent and rapacious hat-check girls, program boys, and tip-extracting ushers in Western Europe. Forewarned that the foreigners have accustomed the Concert's servitors to pocket a bill of any size without giving change, the Parisians placed exactly one franc...
...concert pianist and accompanist for Metropolitan Opera singers, was riding in a Yellow Taxicab ("COURTESY ? HEATED ? LOWEST RATE" ). The cab swung round a corner with a strain that jerked open a faulty door. Pianist Stock, anxious to save trouble for the blue-jowled and beetling driver, reached forward to close the door. The driver did not turn round. He knew by instinct that his door was open. It always opened when he turned a corner. Without a glance, he flung back his arm, caught the door, and savagely slammed it shut on the little finger of Pianist Stock...
Coach Samborski has not yet decided between Bailey and Filoon for one starting position. Filoon plays center as a rule, and Bailey has started at forward regularly, but today they will alternate at left forward...