Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ball or euchre-fest or field day. The citizen now exhibits his nonchalance in the presence of the Law, also his good-fellowship and good-citizenship, by buying the ticket, or several tickets. Not infrequently the citizen caps his gesture by telling the officer to keep the tickets, pass 'em around to his friends and "kiddies." The policeman, if not an imbecile, soon peddles the same tickets over again. Policemen being what they so often are, Manhattanites were not surprised last week to see the chief social body of the local force, the Police Glee Club, exposed as follows...
Descending the Congo valley, last week, on their way back to the Atlantic, King Albert & Queen Elizabeth came, after passing the Mountains of the Moon, to the border of what is perhaps the Congo's greatest wonder: the "Pigmy Forest," also called the "Stanley Forest" and the "Great Forest of the Congo." Strong, hearty, cheerful, white men have not seldom emerged from a journey through the Pigmy Forest with hair turned white and mind temporarily unhinged by its stark terror. Darkness. The Great Forest is always dark. So prodigious is the foliage that even at high noon deep twilight...
Raymond Poincare, French Prime Minister: "France, while remaining faithful to the League of Nations and to individual treaties which she already has signed, will never let pass an opportunity solemnly to condemn offensive wars...
Carranza & Villa. When the years of revolutionary triumph began to lengthen, Obregon might easily have seized the Presidency. But he stood aside for his friend Venustiano Carranza, bearded, schoolmasterish, vain. When Carranza had had his swig of power and seemed reluctant to pass on the cup, General Obregon ousted him and probably issued the order which resulted in his assassination...
Bryan moved from Illinois to Nebraska intending to practice law and steer clear of politics, but "he could no more keep out of politics than the Old Soak could pass the swinging door." Elected to Congress at the age of 30, he was immediately conspicuous for his violent eloquence. Six years later (1896) he, a shrewd politician, achieved the Democratic nomination after the famous "Cross-of-Gold" speech in which he canonized free silver...