Word: givings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traffic, Oct. 31) and likewise throngs waited in the rain for the President on his scheduled route to the Brown Hotel. Plans were changed so that these routes were but partly used, the bridge was not crossed and thousands of those who made it possible for Kentucky to give Mr. Hoover a 170,000 majority last November, stood in the rain and were greatly disappointed when they learned of the change, but many witnessed the parade when it passed scheduled points. As for the hall being half-filled, this is another untruth. It was well filled but not packed...
...told me the jury room was very cold and he was very ill and spitting blood. . . . When the time came for the jury to report, he told me his resolution failed, but the others rallied and bullied him into leaving the jury room. He told me he wanted to give an affidavit of his reactions during the trial. . . . Later he said he had been instructed not to talk. Who issued those instructions, I don't know...
...bangboard. White corn, yellow corn. 45 ears a minute thumping into the wagon. . . . An ordinary workman could not pick it up as fast as that even if it were husked. Red corn. . . . At a husking bee when you find a red ear you have a right to give your best girl a kiss...
...delegates left Baden-Baden, New York's Jackson Eli Reynolds, though he had served as Chairman of the Conference with brilliant, driving power, was not mentioned as prospective Chairman of the Bank. Taciturn in the extreme with correspondents, he had earned their ire. He would not even give out the text of the Statutes, forced them to get it from Germany's offish Schacht, usually the closest oyster at any conference. Perhaps in irritation the newshawks made little of the fact that Mr. Reynolds went straight from Baden-Baden to Paris for a conference with representatives of the House...
...Take it From Me," one must give all columnists "An Even Break." Whether you are "In Broken Fields" or not, travelling "Down the Line" invariably brings you to "Lining Them Up." But whoever has been courageous enough to get this far cannot avoid that bottom-of-the-column feeling...