Word: occured
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Command Performance celebrates one of those witty romances which occur constantly even at this late era in Moldavia, a non-existent country. An actor rescues a lady, assailed by ruffians in the street. One of the ruffians is the decadent Prince of Moldavia; the actor is arrested and haled before the queen...
...radio talk of a week be fore, wherein he flayed intolerance. His unequivocal pronouncements led many to think of him as an ox-boned fullback with a brain. Instead they saw a bristling little man, no taller than many a grammar schoolchild. Similar surprises, some dis appointments will occur every Sunday night during the season...
Politics. Should any political thoughts stray through Mr. Chief Justice's mind this year, it might occur to him to compare the 1908 and 1928 Republican platforms. The one Nominee Taft ran on was partly the work of a newly-eminent lawyer who had successfully prosecuted the Harriman railroad combinations and the Standard Oil Co. for the U. S.-Frank Billings Kellogg, then called "the Beau Brummel of the politicians...
...conditions in his precinct, a resume of the reports of sergeants and patrolmen under him. Following the transfer the new incumbents of each station were to be allowed a week to prepare a similar statement. Mayor Mackey planned to subject these reports to comparative analysis. "It will thus occur to the Captains," he said, "that their future in the police service will depend upon the accuracy and truth of the reports." Mayor Mackey was photographed...
...eleven States of the Midwest with their 149 electoral votes are to the G. O. P. what the eleven States of the South, with 124 electors, are to the Democracy. They are the cornerstone, the bulwark, among which "bolts" and "splits" and outright transitions occur far less frequently than among the eleven Western States, the eleven Eastern States, the four Border States...