Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understand it, Mr. Hargreaves suggests that certain persons whom he calls bankers, a very elastic term, should have seats. That is a point which has been debated on and off for a hundred years and so far as I am aware no argument has ever been brought forward to justify...
...because he was visited by and returned the visit of New York's Mayor James ("Jimmy") Walker. Tall, bronzed, cadaverous and silent, Prince Potenziani left his office for the last time without a word to subordinates, merely saluting them in Fascist fashion, with his right arm inclined upward and forward...
...type of plane. Yes, he had flown from London. No, his plane was, not strictly speaking, a heliocopter. Two small wings projected from it, and it had a propeller, but the huge four bladed pinwheel surmounting the fuselage, deriving power not directly from the motor but from the forward motion of the plane, gave five times the lift of the conventional propeller. This device permitted almost vertical ascent or descent. It also increased immunity from the dangers of motor trouble over unlevel country...
...election of Alfred E. Smith, not because he is a member of the Catholic Church . . . but because he has gone out of his way to announce himself as the implacable foe of things that we count most dear. . . . Let there be no wavering. Let us march steadily forward to victory. 'In the name of our God, we will set up our banners.' Let us baptize afresh our Christian Endeavor motto, 'For Christ and Our Church...
...literary copy it is just as well, since Wisconsin appears to him in unrelieved grey?a monotone of ugliness. And so do the people. Not a one of them has charm or gentleness or pleasant impulses; and the thoughts of each, tortuously analyzed, hark back to a frustration or forward with resignation and despair. Typical in the collection of stories are the drab blunderings of Amelia and her loutish husband ("The Runaways") who weary of their sterile farm, and burn the house for the insurance. Too scatter-brain scared to collect the money, they run away and finally trail along...