Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hunt & Hoax. Meantime, while Congress prayed that the Lindberghs be further spared "the bread of affliction" and nations and cities all over the world poured sympathy on the bereaved young couple, the country's law agencies took a final hitch in their belts and started on a desperate, determined man hunt. Five days' hunting brought to light the second major hoax in the case...
...Brooks, who hopes and works for a different mode of progress, has shown in The Ordeal of Mark Twain and The Pilgrimage of Henry James, what happened to two horses who got in front of the cart. In his biography of Emerson he shows how a most inspirational civilizer hitched his own wagon, tried to hitch the U. S. juggernaut, to a transcendental star...
...inland two Rashidi tribesmen to collect camels, men to conduct him over the Qara mountains to the desert's edge. Shaikh Salih went ahead to organize a relay, prepare the desert ways. So well did he prepare them that the final dash through enemies' territory passed without hitch or hobble from hostile tribes. On his way Explorer Thomas busied himself with collecting flora, fauna, Arab chants, cephalic measurements of different tribes, superb photographs of the desert and its denizens. Though he embroiders his narrative with tales of the desert and its lore, the author's thoughts, like...
...Evans Edge, U. S. Ambassador to France, it was reported, had declined promotion to this No. 1 diplomatic post because Mrs. Edge preferred Paris to London. Mr. Dawes. it was said, wanted to see his good old friend Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois given the job but somewhere a hitch had occurred. So President Hoover turned to Mr. Mellon, gently pushed his 76-year-old Secretary of the Treasury upstairs into the foreign service. How did Mr. Mellon feel about it? asked a correspondent...
...lectures, few concerts; only the library, vast, dust encrusted, darkest Widener. It is a dreary period for him. But what can he do, what can anyone do? The Vagabond will take refuge in poetry "for God he knows and what must be, must be." He like the others must hitch up his belt, try not to think too much of the Vincent Club, and "say neither it is good, nor it is bad; but only it is here...