Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long and long and longer than long or longer, three biscuits small not tall but small, I held and yelled and held the notion not nationally, but notionally that Gertrude Stein, the Stein of Steins, not a beer stein, perhaps a holstein, was not real, unreal, really...
...Coolidge relaxed from the cares of the Presidency in the same humor that made him remark to Mrs. Coolidge when Inauguration Day turned out rainy: "Well, Grace, it usually rains on moving day." Receiving reporters in his old law office, bearing the sign of "Coolidge and Hemenway," he held in his hand, and ratified with a grin, a cartoon which showed him lying in a New England bed under a New England comforter, derisively grinning at an alarm clock that was trying to get him up at 7 a.m. He said that he was not going abroad, was not going...
...strength began. He walked 100 miles from his home town, Garrett, Ind., to get a job behind the lunch counter in the Indianapolis railroad station. In ten years he had a small hotel. At 30 he got a $50,000 a year county job, against incredible odds, and held it for eight years. For six years he was Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when he was 32, although Benjamin Harrison, the Republican candidate for President, lived in Indianapolis. With one hand Taggart built...
...Louis last week were held mayoralty primaries. The Republican and Democratic candidates with their weights and dimensions were as follows...
Recovering his startled wits, the Mayor of Trencsen drafted with much thought a letter to Bangkok. About a year ago, he explained, some Slovaks held a mass meeting and issued a "Declaration of Slovak Independence." The whole thing was quite harmless and academic, easily suppressed by the police. In fact the ringleader was just an old botanist of some slight renown, Professor Mihalusz. Scared pink as a geranium by the first police warning. Botanist Mihalusz fled Trencsen for parts unknown?some say Vienna. He must have written the letter which won Slovakia recognition?from Siam...