Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steamboat. Mayor Thompson literally took the Mississippi Flood at its crest. He was cruising downstream with brass bands to popularize the Lakes-to-Gulf waterway when the rains descended. He changed his commercial cruise into an "errand of mercy," swung Chicago and himself into leadership of the flood-control movement, by no means neglecting to keep the Lakes-to-Gulf project stoked up and steaming along behind...
...practice it has not quite achieved its ends. As football is now played, with the tremendous interest that it evokes among graduates, friends, and other supporters; with newspapers devoting expert analysts, feature writers, and photographers; with the coaching staff and retainers of each side numbering scores of men, any movement, any word uttered, any picture published, is apt to result in a violation of the spirit at least of the agreement. Under the circumstances, a football coach cannot look at a newspaper, he cannot talk to friends, he cannot read his mail, for fear of finding out something about...
Thus far the rule applies to track athletics and cross-country running only, but a movement is now under way to extend it to rowing, rugby, lacrosse, hockey, and soccer, in which Americans have heretofore taken a prominent part...
Prince Carol, he went on, was convinced that there is a growing movement for a Republic. "Every day's events strengthen the Prince's con victions. Hence his desire to return is merely an expression of his anxiety to strengthen the Regency...
...were too dear for her then. The late Henry Theophilus Finck of the New York Evening Post has said: "She had everything in her favor that a fairy could possibly bestow on an operatic artist: a beautiful and amazingly expressive face; a voluptuous figure, with a rare grace of movement; a voice which, at its best-and it usually was at its best-was as lovely, sensuously, as Patti's and infinitely more soulful; a skill for acting realistically which amounted to genius, often making one forget the superlative beauty of her voice; and the supreme gift of magnetism...