Word: hails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hole during Arkansas' dark drought days in 1930; 2) his professional and friendly relations with Arkansas' Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson who pressed his appointment. Mr. Couch is a director of Chase National Bank of New York and of Electric Power & Light Co. of New York. Friendly Arkansans hail him as their State's Cecil Rhodes. Speaker John Nance Garner of Texas also got his man on the R. F. C. directorate when President Hoover appointed Jesse Holman Jones, Houston banker, builder (Rice Hotel) & publisher (Chronicle}. As the finance director of the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Jones...
From the graves of our slain Shall thy valour prevail As we greet thee again Hail, Liberty! Hail...
...polite rather than practical aspects, most U. S. archers might find it difficult to transfix rabbits with their points but they are familiar with the graceful phraseology, the wayward ceremony of their sport. If someone were to shout "He! He!" they would answer in kind this time-honored hail of one toxophilite to another. Their bows are made of lemonwood, their arrows of cedar or pine. Last week, 150 of the foremost U. S. toxophilites gathered at Canandaigua, N. Y., for the 51st annual championship of the National Archery Association...
Thousands of Muscovites tramped to Moscow's railway station fortnight ago to welcome a friend of Lenin, a prime voice of British Socialism. The train pulled in; a band struck up "The Internationale." The Muscovites roared: "Hail Bernard Shaw!" Troops swung into protecting lines down which Mr. Shaw marched, accompanied by Lady Astor and a group of other British notables including her meek husband...
Jack Sharkey, heavyweight boxer, driving his automobile near Brookline, Mass., stopped at a hail of distress near Chestnut Hill reservoir. From an automobile partly submerged in the water he pulled one Mrs. Henry Robbins and one Joseph E. McMorrow who had been teaching the woman to drive when she lost control...