Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Janesville, N. Y., to protect Senator James Thomas Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope. Just before Senator Heflin began to speak, the platform on which he and 50 others were standing crashed to the ground. Many were bruised; no one was seriously injured. The troopers kept the excited multitude of 10,000 Klansmen and "other patriots" in order. Shaken but unruffled, Senator Heflin climbed on a safe corner of the wreck and heffled for two hours as the sky grew dark with night. Said he: "Alfred will never see the inside of that White House...
slow-footed Borah insisted on phrasing the Prohibition promise his own way. Farmers' Friends kept the convention waiting, and the platform-builders sleepless, with their vain insistence upon a different farm plank (see p. 15). In the end, Senator Smoot pumped all the breath he could into a document containing the following phrases...
...sputtering, hissing Klieg searchlights played down on a tall, dark, ministerial figure grasping the high lectern with both outstretched hands. Despite the speaker's height, his appearance was partly obscured by the three panels of aluminum microphones behind which all the convention speakers had to function. Chairs kept on scraping. Seats clacked up and down. The drone of conversation died away slowly as the Voice resumed...
...balloting began coming over the radio. Guests kept score. When the nomination was complete, Mrs. Hoover went to her husband and took both his hands in hers, but said nothing. A few minutes later, he appeared to newsgatherers in an outer room. "I can't say anything tonight, gentlemen. Of course, I'm very happy," he said...
Last year the Coolidge Administration announced that 1,200 Marines would be kept in Nicaragua until after the election; but that number has now been multiplied 4 times. Colonel Clifford D. Ham, who has been Nicaraguan Collector General of Customs for the past 16 years, said recently, upon resigning his post...