Word: hurriedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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One Chicagoan, ignorant, hurried up to another, brandishing his paper. He pointed at the item with an angry finger.
Brick masons at East Chicago, Ind., slashed at mortar with their trowels last week, plumped bricks down to form the stringer courses of a 500-foot surface tunnel; pipe fitters twirled threads onto gas lines with their tap-&-die threader; freight gondolas dumped clay and ganister-Harbison-Walker, $36,000...
Aged Tiger. General Pershing, Commanders Savage and Spafford and a delegation largely representative of the 48 States, trooped up the steps of a house in the Avenue de Messine, Paris. When the door opened, an 87-year-old figure in grey uniform, grey police cap and grey cotton gloves hurried...
With their trigger-fingers itching, elephant slayers prospective and proved pondered this story from Captain Pitman: A ranger fired one .256-calibre bullet into an elephant standing in a clearing on a slope. Down fell the elephant dead, and rolled down the slope. Like any good hunter in any good...
Two months ago, well-meaning Mr. Forrest, whose years of scrivening and dubious golf game have not dulled his sensibilities and his imagination, stood outside the offices of a leading Paris newspaper and watched the posting of bulletins about ill-fated Flyers Coli and Nungesser. Several thousands of Frenchmen surrounded...