Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next move in the game was for Mr. Adams, and he took the opportunity to seize the offensive. He turned the charges of disagreement back on the Democrats. " How does the Democratic Party stand on the League of Nations issue, Mr. Hull?" inquired Mr. Adams. " Does it agree with such Democrats as Senator Walsh of Massachusetts and Senator Shields of Mississippi who oppose the League of Nations ? Does it agree with Senator King who says the League will not be an issue? Does it agree with ex-President Wilson, John H. Clarke, James M. Cox and others who are ardent...
...States Eights, lends an unusual political significance to his act. His friends assert that it makes him certain of the Vice Presidency nomination on the Democratic ticket next fall. Others are equally certain that he cut his political throat. Whichever may be the case, it was an unusually clever move of his to base his action, bound to offend the Drys, on a fundamental doctrine of the Democratic Party...
Prior to Harding's speech there had been a strong pro-League move in Republican ranks, which threatened a split in the Party and the loss of the election...
...before the war was admitted to one of the celebrated dueling clubs - an almost unprecedented honor. After a wait of a few weeks he was called upon to take part in a duel. It is an inviolable rule that the opponents may cut, parry and lunge,, they may also move in any direction, but they cannot under any circumstance duck, their heads to avoid a blow-scars on the head being a mark of the highest honor. The young American in the heat of the duel forgot this rule and when his opponent made a lunge at him-he ducked...
...match the south, and the capacity will be only five to ten thousand more than that of the present wooden stands. But if the straight sides were extended for some distance before beginning the curve, at least twenty thousand seats could be gained. It would be necessary to move the playing field a proportional distance--for example, if the sides were extended fifty yards, the playing field would be moved twenty-five yards in order to be at the new centre. This would put the goal lines twenty-five yards farther away from spectators in the bowl seats; but even...