Word: grips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finis James Garrett of Tennessee, onetime printer, editor, teacher, lawyer, and now leader of the Democracy in the House. President Coolidge appointed him to the U. S. Court of Customs Appeals. Mr. Garrett had reached up for a Senate rung in the Tennessee political ladder last year, missed his grip...
...scratched them, interlined them, thrown them away and locked his decisions in the secret vault of his mind. Everything was arranged and three slack weeks stretched away to March 4. Other men might have played sportively in the languid Florida sunshine, but not Mr. Hoover. His hands itched to grip the Presidency. He greeted casual callers absently and mused about Washington...
Bowed in by Mr. Penney's butler and by Lawrence Richey, Hoover secretary, the Democracy's battered candidate felt the friendly grip of the next President's soft hand. Mr. Hoover had not slicked up much. His coat was blue, his trousers white, his shoes blancoed. The large sun-room took them all in, doors closing behind. Outside, wind whipped rain against the glass and chopped up the waters of Biscayne...
...changa ma music? Every year. I keepa all new pieces in ma machine. She goodda machine, too. Buy her in New York long time ago. Try crank her. See, very easy," but the CRIMSON man disliked the task, and released his grip thus abruptly ending the syncopated tune of "Yes Sir, that's my Baby", one of Joe's latest "hits...
...French tried and the British succeeded in ousting the Spaniards, in 1742. The battle of Bloody Marsh, won by Georgia's Founder-Governor Oglethorpe on St. Simon's Island, near Sapeloe, was one of the actions decisive in breaking Spain's grip on continental America...