Word: offs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The occasion called attention to the fact that Senator Warren, besides being the oldest Senator, had established a new duration record. No man in U. S. history can match his 36½ years of Senate service. It was, however, not yet a non-stop record. Senator Warren "took off" on...
Tribute to Senator Warren's years was paid by Tennessee's Democratic Senator McKellar who wished him many happy returns of the day, recited his venerable record and said: "I take off my hat to him . . . make my bow in admiration of him . . . congratulate him on his clean...
One morning last week in Washington a tall thick-shouldered man of 57 with grey hair and a goatee climbed into an automobile, set off for Portland, Ore. He was tired. Though no Congressman, he had been working hard with Congress and now, upon its adjournment, he was going home...
In Marshfield, Ore., a cougar leaped to the back of a cow belonging to Farmer W. J. Ocheltree. When it leaped off again to attack him, Farmer Ocheltree kicked it four times in the face, made it run. Then he dogged, treed, shot it.
Author Arthur Train deserted the legal profession to indict law and society in novels (Page Mr. Tutt, Tut, Tut! Mr. Tutt, etc., etc.) which have been as readable as they were scathing. But the Train output has now slid off into a slow, melodramatic, sentimental tale of a prestidigitator who...