Word: handfull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Democratic Field Marshal Simmons wanted to get back to New Bern, N. C.. where a bank failure, he explained, had cost him every cent he had. He it was who proposed the truce?adjournment of the special session, putting the tariff over to December. On the vote the Young...
In Vatican City it was feared that the loss to His Holiness would be much greater than the theft of Commendatore Jorio, due to the failure of Banco Bombelli immediately after his flight. Meantime even more distressing rumors spread. Miss Beatrice Baskerville, enterprising news ferret of the New York World...
General Moses took a fast train to Chicago as other Senate warriors loudly complained that he had reflected not only on the Insurgents but "on their mothers and fathers." General George Norris of Nebraska, seizing a handful of straw from some pottery in an exhibit (see below), waved it over...
To their feet leaped all the Deputies except a handful, and every single party leader except Louis Marin of the extreme Right, who gave the perfect touch of drama by sitting with arms folded, glow- ering. Amid such a frenzy as even M. Briand has seldom stirred, the Great Man...
The handful of Representatives who attended one of the House's perfunctory meetings last week stopped their mumblings to listen, for a change, to what Clerk of the House William Tyler Page was reading from the rostrum in his clear rapid voice, which usually rings out over the Representatives...