Word: loned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...votes cast, thus precluding a "run-off" primary unless Mrs. Ferguson's husband-manager could establish his loud charges of poll frauds. In Texas, Democratic nomination equals virtual election. Under the terms of a wager* Governess Ferguson was honor-bound to resign her executive position immediately. The lone-star state, state of the Alamo, of San Jacinto, of hard boiled sandslappers† and silken-tongued two-gun men, will now be governed by a onetime Sunday School teacher...
...minutes. Mrs. Cyrus Jr., or her husband, paid $7,037 for the ride. Mrs. McCormick, the only passenger, traveled with a full train crew. She tipped the Pullman conductor $50, the porter $30, a passenger agent $50. And that was all there was to that, except that a lone lady seldom hires a special train, as she would a taxicab, and the newspapers simply had to tell about it. There must be some mysterious attraction in Chicago to necessitate such a gesture. No, said the McCormicks, there was nothing mysterious at all; no illness, marriage, divorce, or other sensation...
...Scarcely a morning dawns that French airplanes do not drone aloft to release bombs. At Aleppo, Horns, Hama, Seraand, Suedia and Salkhad other French garrisons defend themselves by similar means. French semi-armored trains and auto-convoys ply with grim regularity this sea of revolt. When a lone Frenchman ventures forth, a scimitar flashes or a crudely cast bullet dumdums into his flesh. But Syria is far from Europe, farther from...
These nobly befuddled Poles, having continued their celebration and refused to be ejected for almost a month, alleged with great presence of mind last week that their sortie had been provoked by a lone Lithuanian private, who had wandered into Poland and been found with dumdum bullets in his pocket...
...allowed the Purple sluggers no hits, retiring them in one-two-three order in the last half of the eighth inning. The Sophomore's last start was against today's invaders, when he did not allow a bit for five innings. In the sixth he was touched for a lone bingle, and in the seventh he was removed after walking three men and allowing another to hit safely...