Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wore pigtails, appeared anything else. Mrs. Mallory looked as if she had been in swimming with all her clothes on. Her shirt stuck to her back like a wet towel; her eyes glared out of her tawny face; the cords stood out along her arms. Helen Wills took the lead, 8-6. Mrs Mallory showed why she is called the "lionhearted" by winning the next two sets 6-4, 6-2; she shook hands, walked unsteadily to the side of the court, collapsed in a chair. Helen Wills, convalescent, seemed the stronger of the two. She strode composedly into...
...made Tuesday evening. Another speech like this one, and first thing Mr. Coolidge knows he may have a suit for plagiarism on his hands, brought by the editors of the Encyclopaedia, Britannica." Democrat readers beamed, folded their papers back gleefully but Republicans were not much alarmed. Had this same lead appeared in the immaculate columns of the Times things would have been different; but everybody knew that the World's partisanship now and then ran away a bit with its common sense. Further perusal showed the analogies to be matters of fact-"seventh in area," "wealth...
...failed to foresee what is now happening? Why did we not halt under the shells and convoke a board meeting of profiteers to decide the question whether it would allow us to continue in defense of the greatest conquest in history? Must the myth of German reparations lead up to American cash collections...
...open secret that in this affair there are only imagary dates of payment, which will lead up to a loan with solid security in the shape of our territorial possessions, as was the case for Turkey. Such a thing, Mr. President, I am bound to tell you we shall never accept...
...flops, then you are wrong and no breathless tagging in the wandering aimless footsteps of the public can save you anyway. TIME is one of four or five periodicals in America fit for persons of intelligence to read. . . . Particularly do I like your novel phrasing, your occasional Dutch lead, your informality, your nonchalant and indifferent manner of treating a man's religion as if you are referring to his ham and eggs of the previous breakfast, your picture captions, your very illuminating footnotes, your kidding of correspondents who become righteously indignant over something about which you may either...