Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large brick "common jail," on the banks of the Anacostia in Washington must go Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair for three months. The U. S. Supreme Count so ruled last week. His crime was contempt of the Senate...
...Newcomers arrived in Washington sometime after the turn of the century. They are the active stagemanagers who keep the official actors moving rapidly from one dining room set to the next. They are mostly Wet. They play bridge and poker, go in for costume parties. Their parties are less exclusive than the Cave-dwellers', but they seldom give their guest lists to the newspapers...
Sweeping in a Manhattan post office, last week, a negro employe stepped on a parcel and was startled to hear it go siss, and emit wisps of smoke. He gave it a "kick, let out a yell. The package stopped smoking, and nothing happened...
...conversation he had with me at the Elysée Palace," declared M. Poincaré, "the American Ambassador said, 'If Paris is taken, I will display our star-spangled banner over your monuments and museums! I will go to the utmost limits of my power to protect the inhabitants against pillage and oppression...
...died as he would have preferred to die, in France and at his post of duty, and he goes back to America as he would have liked to go, with the flags of both countries floating over...