Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...centre aisle was filled with a vigorous figure. Fernald of Maine stretched his hand over, rattled off a story to the tardy one. Senator LaFollette, for it was he, laughed aloud. Then, "I'm awfully glad to see you," he said, as his onetime running mate, Wheeler, pressed forward with a warm greeting...
...began to sizzle. No word that could in any way be called ungentlemanly was uttered; yet the situation was tense; and the delegates strained forward as Mr. Campbell scrambled to his feet to insist that he had only stated facts in his former speech...
Revolt. Two platoons of the Eleventh Sudanese Regiment at Khartum in the Sudan mutinied, started to march to Gordon College. Near the Egyptian military hospital in the Khedivial Avenue they bumped into two platoons of a British Egyptian regiment; both came to a halt. The British officer went forward, exhorted the Sudanese to obey orders, but the Sudanese refused. At this moment the acting Sirdar, Colonel Huddleston, rode up and went forward in front of the British troops to urge sanity on the Sudanese. But the Sudanese merely declined to recognize the Sirdar. Orders were then given to round...
...Life Wonderful? Down the long rank of cinema producers, uniformed in the maddening monotony of platitude and always marking time, one man may now and then be seen to step ahead. David Wark Griffith took his first step forward with The Birth of a Nation when the ranks were straggling and new. Since then he has widened the margin of his advance and stands unchallenged as Commanding Officer. This absolute leader in the film field has made another of his all too rare productions. To Germany he went to make it; took Germany's post-War hunger...
...Hall. After a fair analysis of the arguments on both sides, the floor was thrown open to discussion. Dr. Straton was asked if he believed in God, how Noah got all the animals into the Ark, how he could reconcile the Copernican theory anl many others. Then he stepped forward and asked if he might put a few questions...