Word: hid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprise of the week was of a jack-in-the-box nature. Premier Poincaré hid his chagrin at the defeat of the Electoral Reform Bill from the Chamber for two days, while the air was charged with amendments, sub-amendments, remonstrance and counter remonstrance, orations cold and orations hot. Suddenly out sprang M. Poincaré from his little box, uttered a few short, sharp, subtle sentences making the passage of the bill a question of confidence in the Government, and ? abracadabra, the bill was passed by 408 votes to 127, thus completely reversing the minority vote of two days previous...
...youth, and Ponce de Leon achieved lasting fame. Messrs. Rice, Rehm, and Buffam, however, are after nothing so ridiculous. What they hope to discover is a new and dazzling type of feminine beauty. They may fail: it would seem scarcely credible that any cranny of the earth remained still hid from Mr. Zeigfield's keen-eyed scouts. And failing, they will be ridiculously ridiculous where Ponce de Leon was sublimely so. But the world will hope for their success, if only to see what a shock Mr. Zeigfield would receive to find the "Geryon" loaded with beauties actually discovered...
...fact which necessitated Presidential steps for the enforcement of law and order. On top of all this Señor Miguel Aiesio Robles, Minister of Commerce, tendered his resignation to the President. Señor Robles was a particularly warm friend of President Obregon and it was he who hid Obregon in his own house during the last days of the Carranza régime...
...Freshman baseball team by an eighth inning rally turned what hid fair to become a defeat into a victory, and finally downed the Westbrook Seminary nine by the score of 6 to 5 on Soldiers Field yesterday. The game was fast throughout, the visitors hitting freely in the early innings and piling up a 5 to 3 lead...
...were filled with anger against him, that their tumultous applause was ironical. This convinced him that his compositions were bad-that was why the people were aroused against him. He said he was going to rewrite all he had written. He had a large volume of manuscript composition. He hid this away jealously, and worked, rewriting piece after piece, but the rewriting pleased him no more than the original work. During the war he accused himself. He could not fight. He was doing nothing for his country. He tried to make amends by aiding war sufferers. He gave money...