Word: grab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governors of Illinois and Kansas and several generals saw Illinois turn the weak Army flank to grab Murrel's passes and spill Cagle's interference. When the Army seemed hottest Murrel aimed a short semilateral pass at Cagle. The stands screamed as an Illinois shape named Wolgast jumped between. Murrel chased him for 80 yards but missed his heels in a wild dive at the goal line. Illinois 17, Army...
Last week Prince Peter of Montenegro arrived in England with his fair wife Violet Emily Wagner, British-born music hall dancer whom he married five years ago. In London he smiled while she pushed through a crowd of welcoming potentates, to grab, hug and kiss her father, a onetime London detective sergeant. Said the prince, beaming upon his wife: "There is no woman who can equal the English blond, and I have chosen the best...
...have reserve stocks of the type of high class cotton cloth competitively manufactured in the U. S. and can maintain their position in this class of goods for some weeks or months. 3) Germany and Japan, producers of cheapest cotton cloth, will be in a much stronger position to grab what Lancashire loses of this business?and the bulk of Lancashire cloth has long been of the cheaper grades...
...first the Chinese Government's wiry little Foreign Minister, Dr. Cheng T'ing ("C. T.") Wang (Yale, 1911), vehemently asserted China's "right" to grab the C.E.R. The Treaty of 1924, he pointed out, provides that the Soviet railway personnel must not engage in Communist propaganda, a proviso often flagrantly violated. Right or wrong, however, Dr. Wang changed his tune when the screws of diplomatic pressure were applied. Presently the Chinese Foreign Office announced that...
...wanted to do is something for the public. ... We did it for the city. . . . This place is city property." Collected for the first night were such as Mr. & Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Mr. & Mrs. Conde Nast, Mr. & Mrs. Adolph Zukor, Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Grab and the Sheriff of New York County. Maitre d'Hotel Rene Black, "Master of Forty Sauces," hovered majestically. Quick was the Press to pick up this dining place as a likely morsel for public fun. Its menu prices were broadcast: chicken okra soup 65?, baked lobster thermidor $2, lamb stew...