Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Akerson told them to return next day. They did, to find no appointment with the President ready for them. The third day was like the second, the fourth like the third. Plainly President Hoover would not see them. In high dudgeon they left Washington. Mayor de Golier exclaimed: "I am deeply disappointed. . . . Discrimination...
Last week Mr. Burke left his White House desk a while to ponder a reply to Mrs. Willebrandt's statement. She had transferred the odium of her Springfield address direct to him and his Republican National client. Careful not to contradict Mrs. Willebrandt in any major particular, Mr. Burke responded...
...number of disastrous printing ventures, Cleland came under the tutelage and iron discipline of able Daniel Berkeley Updike, whose work at Boston's famed Merrymount Press raised the entire level of U. S. printing. The true printer's quiet love for arranging type and ornament has never left him-he still supervises the lettering and printing processes of all his work...
...notable fight. Tired by last minute weight-making tortures,* for two rounds Champion Mandell barely kept his feet as Brooklyn's Tony Canzoneri, tough challenger, rushed and slashed, came close to rocking Rockford's sheik to sleep. Then class told and Tony Canzoneri found himself taking many a left jab, many a deft hook, on the chin, on flattened nose, in his lean torso. Baffled but vicious, the Italian continued his savage rushes. To "Long Count" Dave Barry, referee, they looked convincing. But not so convincing to the ringside judges. So, after ten hard rounds, by vote...
...parents suppressed their pistol-duel, whereupon Wolf burst into sobs-"like a child"-on his mother's bosom. Fights Wolf did not provoke with Dietrich who, provocative, was a little stronger, a little older, and who peeped exaggeratedly when Wolf and Suzanne made their little love that left him out. ... All in a world of their own, none of these budding ones saw "how the clouds passed over them and the hour...