Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through the falling flakes ran President Hoover. Behind him trotted Secretaries Wilbur and Hyde, Solicitor-General Hughes, Farm Board Chairman Legge, six others. When they came to their level, shrub-guarded playground behind the White House, they briskly began passing their 8-lb. medicine ball back and forth. They kept it up for a half-hour, then walked back to the White House to have their morning coffee indoors instead of out for the first time this year. Thus came Winter to Washington...
Coach Knute Rockne thought Southern California might be too strong for his boys. He kept them on defensive work all week, but when, from his movable bed on the sidelines, he saw them scored on, he decided the best defence was attack. Carideo and Savoldo did what was expected of them after that and Southern California's Musick missed the extra point that would have tied the score. Notre Dame...
...clothes and horse-racing, Promoter Rice has long been the prime U. S. schemer. His latest efforts were centered in Boston where he ran the "Boston Curb," dealing in his own stocks, most famed of which were Idaho Copper and Columbia Emerald. Through his "financial" paper, The Iconoclast, he kept in touch with gullible yokels, advising them of activities within the companies and upon the "Curb." Faith-provoking methods of the Iconoclast were constant attacks upon margin trading, advice to buy sound New York Stock Exchange securities, instructions that widows and near-paupers keep their funds in savings banks. When...
...Richards and Dr. Browder, one of his associates in charge of the Harvard teams, kept Harding in the locker building under observation, and at 6 o'clock, not satisfied with his condition, called an ambulance and took him to the Stillman Infirmary. There the boy's condition improved and Dr. Richards went to the theatre to deliver the theatre tickets for Harding's sister. Dr. Browder, who was with the player, became convinced shortly before 9 o'clock that Harding's condition was critical Richards was summoned and it was discovered that Harding was bleeding inwardly and that he probably...
...picture shows that the producers are making progress in sound technique. "Evidence" exhibits little of the self-conscious parading of strange noises for the mere sake of showing off. There are animals occasionally gurgling for this talkie, but they are incidental to the plot and are kept in the proper place. Pauline Frederick, an oldtimer on stage and screen, does a fine piece of work in the principal female role of the mother full of maternal affection. It is a difficult role to handle without slopping over into the worst sort of sentimentality and her experience stands her in good...