Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...likewise, the hand of Dictator Mussolini in attacks by Fascists mobs, last week, upon the French consulates at Tripoli and Benghazi in Italian Tripolitania. Though the Italian Foreign Office "apologized," the impression lingered that Fascists are being roused to a fighting mood against France, represented as the fertile republican ground upon which plots are hatched against Fascism...
...thoroughly American rat, no relation to the black and brown rats of Europe. It fears rattlesnakes, gopher snakes and ground owls. It has never seen one- otherwise it would not be alive...
...their calves in a grassy pocket gulch; here, in the broader valley, a scattered group of yearlings and dry cows; there, proudly alone, a burly young bull; there, ponderous and patriarchal, respectfully attended by his consorts, an old herd leader with a hump like a hillock, beard to the ground and the gleam of fretful age in his small red eyes...
...friend of the unfortunate Chipps, had admitted expending $15,000 in hiring prosecutors for the Norris trial, upon which discovery Judge George Hosey changed the location of court. Here was difficulty. San Antonio missed the honor by having too many resident Catholics, who, it is felt, might have some ground of annoyance against one who has never spared them with his tongue. Dallas and Houston were debarred, as the judge had heard that Mr. Norris had "experienced trouble" there. Austin was said to be too small, but was finally elected, faute de mieux...
...craze, begins to eat seal blubber and wears its flannels twelve months in the year. Just now the Riffa have got us, and promise to keep us until they have exhausted the Spanish Shawl market and the Morroco Leather Trust. To meet the popular demand Lady Fair has been ground out, and now, on the eve of its New York production it is being given the third degree at the Shubert...