Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover what time to go upstairs and wait. When a military aide appears, escorting the Ambassador, Major Domo Hoover will put them in the Green Room, go aloft again to bring the President down to the Blue Room, open the Green Room door, bow in the Peruvian, wait, lead the Peruvian out to his motor, bow him away...
...Lead Pencils. Higher duties asked and objected to. Nathan Bilder of A. W. Faber Pencil and Rubber Goods Co. declared: "It certainly is a display of extreme selfishness when an industry that leads the world and exports more than twice the value of competing importations asks for higher duties to exclude importations amounting to only 2% of consumption...
Faults. The great lords of trade and peers of the realm thus addressed are not accustomed to being told that they have faults. Several sat up palpably bristling as Edward of Wales laid down two premises which, if valid, lead straight to the conclusion that even Tycoons may be slothful, obtuse, incompetent...
...Hawthorne, N. J., Death came mysteriously, last week, to 127 dogs. Keeper-of-the-Dog-Pound Lloyd Ferguson investigated, found that the 127 dogs had eaten strychnine, arsenic of lead, "wolf pills" or ground glass; that these ingredients had been placed in bits of food left on sidewalks and in gutters throughout the town...
...comedy lead is to be taken by G. L. Leach '29. Others having leading roles are J. W. Bethell '29, F. W. Blatchford '30, D. C. Lewis '30, and J. P. Davis '30. A chorus of 16, trained by a Boston dancing school, is to humor the audience with several tiller numbers. Several featured tap-dancing parts are also included