Word: hail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress. *Thomas Jefferson loomed in 1799 as the foe of Federalism, leader of Republicanism. Present day Virginians hail him as father of the Democracy...
...Whereupon Mr. Kelly tells the painter to open his mouth, but it is Mr. Dempsey who announces that all painters have weasels. Then lights blink, doors swing, screams are screamed-and people appear, one by one, a shaggy seadog with a hook for a hand, a chirping grandmother, a hail-girl-well-met, etc., etc. They are all looking for a fellow surnamed The Octopus who hangs humans by the feet when he hears the tick of a clock. They go down into the vault of the lighthouse where an octopus tickles Mr. Kelly between his shivering ribs while nobody...
Fanatical Indian mobs surged in the streets of Madras, Calcutta and Bombay, last week, chanting the Swaraj (NonCooperation) party song "Bonde Mataram!" ("Hail, Motherland!"). Their excitement, which rapidly rose to the pitch of violence, was due to the landing at Bombay of the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME...
Enthusiastic Kansans, including Gov. Ben S. Paulen, foregathered in Manhattan to hail "the Noble Injun...
Knots of villagers watched late into the night on small station platforms through South Carolina, but President Coolidge slumbered efficiently. He woke up in Florida, breakfasted below Jacksonville, got off after lunch at Miami. There it was all top hats, shiny motors, swaying palms, "Hail to the Chief." Zooming airplanes, booming realty, bright blue water, a schooner wrecked by last year's hurricane, fluttering handkerchiefs, baskets of fruit, "Goodbye, Mayor Sewell"?and the Coolidge Special rolled...