Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settlements are the two "skyscrapers" at Taos, where the bronze men stalk about in white sheets; most picturesque is atop the big mesa rock at Acoma, whence the women must descend for water). In all, there are about 75,000 Indians in this district. Every now & then their chiefs hitch up covered wagons or crank up battered motor trucks and travel through the varicolored badlands to councils called by tall, tanned, benign Herbert James Hagerman, 59, onetime (1906-1907) Governor of New Mexico Territory, now special Interior Department Commissioner to handle the business of 21 tribes. Constantly his little official...
...last moment came a hitch. The Pope wanted also to issue a Christmas message to all his cardinals. This was timed for Christmas Eve. The publicity given a message to the U. S. might detract from the effect of the message to the cardinals...
...last minute a hitch in Mr. Doak's appointment developed. James John Davis, "for sentimental reasons," had wished to terminate his ten years of Cabinet membership simultaneously with assuming his position in the Senate. When it became known that he would not be seated on the Senate's opening day, his resignation became momentarily ineffective, he still retained his secretariat. Mr. Doak was not sworn in as a recess appointee. Meantime, Messrs. Doak and Davis had gone through preliminary ceremonies for the newsreels in which the retiring official had presented his successor to the successor's wife...
...possible hitch: Mr. Scullin might tell the British Minister to inform the Emperor of Abyssinia that black is white; at the same time Prime Minister Forbes of New Zealand might tell him to say that black is pink; and either Canada's Bennett or Mr. MacDonald might instruct him to say that black is green...
...junction of Rio de Janeiro's Avenida Rio Branco and Avenida Beira-Mar stands an obelisk, pride of the city. Last week 16 slouch-hatted gauchos (cowboys) with ponchos over their shoulders and red handkerchiefs knotted about their necks rode up to it and solemnly hitched their ponies to its base while camera shutters clicked and black-coated pedestrians cheered themselves hoarse. This was the final act of Brazil's revolution. The gauchos of Rio Grande do Sul (the southern state in which the revolt started), had vowed: "We'll hitch our ponies to the obelisk...