Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is an organization known as Guides. For a slight compensation they lead visitors around the building and explain it to them. The Vice President's Chamber is adjacent to the Senate Chamber and so small that it is necessary to keep the door open in order to obtain the necessary cubic feet of air to survive. When he is in the room these guides point him out as though he were a curiosity. I stood this as long as I could and then went to the door one day and said: 'If you look upon...
...make a prophecy . . I foretold that Russian money would be stabilized sooner than in any of the other countries of Europe. Now I say that if Russia has good harvests coming two years in succession her wealth will be greater than the greatest credit she might obtain abroad...
Home again, he began at once on his first objective-to obtain U. S. recognition for Turkey. At the dock, he greeted reporters with a compactly-worded statement, as it were, announcing his text to Secretary of State Kellogg, Foreign Relations Chairman Borah and the rest of the U. S. Senate...
District Attorney Jerome of Manhattan was trying to obtain evidence against Richard A. Canfield, famed gambler. Vanderbilt was known to be a frequenter of Canfield's place; dowagers who had never set foot therein avowed that he had often lost as much as $75,000 in one evening. The attorney subpoenaed him as a witness. He, with a gentleman's reticence for airing his losses in public, avoided the subpoena. Hundreds of detectives believing him to be concealed in his Manhattan house, beleaguered the place. The press played up the episode as a farce. Crowds gathered to stare...
Colored Cats. Long and learned reports were read upon the inheritance of fur color in cats. A mysterious story had got abroad that zoological gardens, cat clubs, museums were anxious to obtain specimens of three-colored cats, such as the rare tortoiseshell, black and yellow hybrid. Result: floods of letters from people with tricolored felines, many ingeniously complicated breeding experiments...