Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Embassy. Some businessmen laid the French action to a desire to secure the upper hand at the negotiations for a treaty of commerce and amity with the U. S., due to take place in Paris on or about Oct. 15.? Others saw in it a move to force the hand of the U. S. in regard to paring down the French debt. An official protest was lodged by the U. S. through the Paris Embassy. The French promised to consider the matter. Busy businessmen doubted that anything would be done; that France would ever give up such a good...
...Paris preened herself for the advent of the "Second Expeditionary Force," certain U. S. citizens began to move away from there. Their attitude was well illustrated by a recent drawing in Life showing two men in conversation on a deck of an ocean liner. One (an obvious cad) says: "Of course, I hated to come home so soon?but I really couldn't bear to be in France while those American Legion rowdies are there!" To which the other (an honest and courageous gentleman) replies: "As I remember, you felt that way about it when they were there before...
...machine, two arms reach out and gather in the spreading branches of the cotton bushes. Two vertical, revolving cylinders spined with close-set spindles, brush along the branches gently. The cylinders slide backwards horizontally on their bases at the same speed as the whole machine is moving forward. This saves the branches from being torn off the bushes. By the time the cylinders reach the end of the backward slide, their spindles have finished the task of combing all loose fibres off the branches and out of opened bolls. The branches are released. The fibres are brushed off the spindles...
...move has been made for the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance since it was dropped, and as far as the present Government is concerned none is contemplated...
...poor to pay for anything. He took his pay in oil, bonds. Once he sold an idea to an irate Irishwoman. She was the empress of a Philadelphia slum section he wanted badly to buy up for expansion of the Baldwin works. The lady had refused to sell and move out, and had wrathfully bade her neighbors do likewise. Mr. Vauclain put on an old straw hat, sauntered down her street and reclined in the sun opposite where she sat glowering on her porch. Neither spoke. After half an hour he strolled away. Next day he appeared again. Her sociability...