Word: handed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was a moment of fidgeting and shifting while the cameramen peered. Suddenly Tiny Tim, the Coolidge chow, scampered into the room, ran yipping toward his master. Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. Kellogg came and stood in the doorway. Smiling, the President took a large, glimmering gold pen in his hand, a gift pen to Mr. Kellogg from the City of Havre, France. With a flourish which made good copy for the cameramen, he signed one copy of the ratification document, started to hand it to Mr. Kellogg. Sidney Smith, State Department official, reached over, blotted the parchment, passed...
...more serious than that. The Oklahoma House drew up ten articles of impeachment against Governor Johnston and quickly passed five of them. With the anti-Johnston forces holding the whip hand, it was practically certain that the remaining articles of impeachment would be passed. The next step would be the suspension of Governor Johnston from office and his trial before the Senate court on charges of general incompetence, official corruption and moral turpitude. The step was taken by a vote of 38 to 5. Automatically Lieutenant-Governor W. J. Halloway became Governor, pending trial of Governor-Suspend Johnston...
After a preliminary, characteristic sweep of the left hand over his thin black hair, Tycoon Young hitched his chair a trifle and said...
...records as follows: 3,000 yards in 7 min, 43 and 2/5 sec.; 2,500 metres in 6:58; and one and five-eighth miles in 7:23 2/5. He made these records in the course of running 3,000 yards with a stop watch in one hand...
...hand when every advertisement is a "unit of effective art," to quote from the announcement of the awards, the leaders in the field at least, have certainly come very near achieving it. By the publicity given the competition itself and the work of the prize-winners, the Bok foundation has made valuable contributions towards the attainment of that ideal...