Word: nodded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enemy Number One was M. le Senateur Joseph Caillaux. He, by wily intrigue, upset the next-to-last Poincare Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 12). Last week the Prime Minister took revenge. At his nod the Senate ousted rich, financier Joseph Caillaux from the seat on the Senate Finance Committee which he has held almost ever since he entered public life...
There was, to begin with, hollow-cheeked, insurgent Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, where the trip started. He it is who is supposed to guard the Progressive mantle of the late, great LaFollette. The Omaha speech on farm relief received a nod of Norris approval. Of the Denver waterpower speech, Senator Norris said: "... Great! . . . We're up against the greatest monopoly, the greatest attempt at control of great resources, ever undertaken since the days of Jesus Christ!" The Omaha World-Herald, daily newspaper of the Brown Derby's advisor, onetime Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska...
...each other. Fortunately the Marshal's chauffeur is a talented swerver. He broke the force of the whizz-smash by a cool, adroit skid-swerve. When the man at the wheel turned around with blanched face to explain, he received from Marshal Pétain a little nod and a typical, paternal phrase of encouragement, "Bien fait, mon fils." ("Well done...
Salanio, Salarino and Gratiano, ordinarily the Wynmen, Blynken and Nod of the Shakespearian first act, were as different as people really are and as alike as gentlemen's ideas are. Hugh Miller, Alfred Jingle in 'Pickwick", played a lively Gratiano to the giggling Nerissa of Spring Byington...
Into the House, where gentlemen were delivering themselves of opinions on the pared-down Naval Building Bill, strolled Curtis Dwight Wilbur, towering Secretary of the Navy. With a smile here, a nod there, he took his amiable way to a seat in the front row of the chamber...