Word: hornets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...centurion of the bodyguard. Such was the abrupt appearance of William B. Shearer, plaintiff?described in papers which his lawyers proceeded to file as a citizen and a taxpayer as well as a qualified naval expert and the inventor of a type of one-man torpedo boat, the Sea Hornet, sold to the Government during the War. One other person was described in the papers filed. He was Curtis D. Wilbur, set down as Secretary of the Navy and defendant...
Those were the times of "Teddy" Roosevelt, President of the U. S. The Panama Canal was the greatest achievement of his foreign policy, a policy which stirred up a hornet's nest about his ears. His energetic action against Colombia was called "a conspiracy carefully planned and cleverly executed," and "one that cannot be justified in morals or in law." Others referred to it as "the blackest page in our history as a nation." Still others said of the President: "Did any civilized representative of superior power ever indulge in browbeating so pitiable and so pitiless? Can such cowardly...
...Hornet, published monthly at Mocksville, N. C., sells for 35 cents a year, $1.00 for four years. For this modest price its readers obtain monthly four pages of print that comprise the "Hottest Democratic Paper in the United States...
...club of 20 subscriptions The Hornet offers a "novelty knife" containing pictures of "the late candidates COX and ROOSEVELT...