Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the tobacco workers, for the most part employed by American concerns, have been on strike and the police have taken the same steps to preserve order that the police of any other country would have taken. There has been no serious street fighting, no long casualty list, no mutiny in the fleet and no Communist revolt...
Pilot Drew flew the Fokker back to Croyden, where it was temporarily held, by order of the British Air Ministry. Pilot Drew went out on the tugboat Lady Brassy and peered at mocking Channel wavelets. Pilot Drew left the Lady Brassy and entrained for Brussels...
...order to avoid misunderstandings, I wish to declare that I personally, as Dictator, called Parliament together and cooperated with it constitutionally, even though I could have crushed the whole outfit under my thumb like a vile worm. The Deputies behave in Parliament as if they were in a saloon. Only the Ministers must act respectably while the Deputies bawl and act like swine and renegades...
...under tin cans in millions of back yards or the blazing sun which, always a little sultry as if stained with gunpowder, wheels over the continent, is the tradition which dictates that the baseball teams which lead the two major leagues on that day will finish in the same order when the season is over. Generally the tradition works out. Last year it was the Pirates in the National League, the Yankees in the American. This year it is the Cardinals and the Yankees. Critics who this week, on the Fourth of July, read the standings of the clubs, could...
Last week, only nine teams remained upon the floor. These, in the order of their apparent vigor and the amount of prize money which they received for special clowning dances, spinning, black bottoms, displays of beauty, good humor and other noteworthy feats, together with their orignal occupations and wages, were as follows...