Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a shrewd move that President Coolidge sought to counteract the Democratic fervor which grew loud with the election returns. He knew that as soon as Congress opened in December there would be a clamor for a general tax reduction, that Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee, and many another anti-Administration man would champion such a plan. So what could be wiser than for the President to be Champion Tax Cutter No. 1? In the first Cabinet meeting after election day he explained his scheme, then he held a short conference with...
When dwellers on Mt. Auburn Street awoke yesterday morning to their customary activities, they were startied by the sight of the little en-caged elm, that grew so debonaire in front of the Lampoon's front steps, hanging over its bars, bent and broken...
...Lieutenant Commander the Honorable Joseph Montague Kenworthy (heir to the ninth Baron Strabolgi), long a famed bulwark of Georgian Liberalism, grew so vexed at last with Mr. Lloyd George that he bolted without warning into the Laborite ranks of onetime (Jan.-Nov. 1924) Premier Ramsay Macdonald...
...passed on most of his shares to his nephew. Henry Edwards Huntington, the nephew, was not, in the conventional idiom, self-made; he took Collis Huntington's money and used it to advantage. Born in Oneonta, N. Y., in 1850, he dealt in hardware, switched to railroading, grew. He bought land, built resorts in southern California, and ran railroads out to them (the Pacific Interurban, the Los Angeles Street Railways). He made about a hundred million dollars. He said he would retire at 60. That age loomed in his life like a pillar at a boundary, dividing the world...
From the molpe, there gradually grew the drama, and the other forms of literature, as we now know them. From it arose on the shores of the Aegean the story of Orestes, one of the most poetical of Greek characters; from it there sprung up among the Norsemen of the Baltic the ancient saga of Hamlet...