Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With many pauses for emphasis, characteristic of his speaking style, pauses during which he wags his tongue sidewise in open mouth, as if calculating, and winces about the eyes, as though thinking hard, he then launched into description, analysis, comparison of the Empire. A typical excerpt...
...event drew small attention because there was very little at stake. M. Henri Jaspar is still prime minister. In the central legislature, the greatest gain in seats was made by the Liberal party, which had encouraged closer relations with France and opposed the liquor laws forbidding the drinking of hard liquor in public. To win voters from Antwerp and Brussels, notorious amateurs of fine Burgundy, the Liberals promised reduced duties on imported French wines...
Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, the hard-bitten U. S. Marine who lately returned from commanding a China patrol force, last week declared to the Wayne, Pa., Chamber of Commerce...
Champion Smith had found on the St. Cloud course, just outside of Paris, what golfers call their "element." The Smith golf is highly stylized, has mostly been played on the hard, fast fairways of Missouri and California. Golfer Smith's two feet and the head of his club, when it touches the ground, nearly always form that invisible equilateral triangle so exuberantly eulogized in golf textbooks. During the recent European venture of U. S. professional golfers, he has been the direct antithesis of erratic unorthodox Leo Harley Diegel. On the careless hillocks and ridges of Muirfield and Moortown where...
Readers of public prints recalled that only a few weeks before he sat down to this luncheon, Publisher Hearst had sat the President down pretty hard on the subject of Prohibition, in his national broadside against the Hoover speech in Manhattan to the Associated Press, which Publisher Hearst called "a blank cartridge fired against a blank wall" (TIME...