Word: past
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover has no great fancy for women in public office. Nevertheless, appreciative of her excellent work in the past, he returned to Jessie Dell, a Georgia Democrat, her resignation as a U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, thus retaining her in office. He also sent back unaccepted the resignation of General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff...
...cheap. During the two days and nights that Marshal Ferdinand Foch lay in state, last week−beneath the Emperor Napoleon's tremendous Arch of Triumph−the government suppressed and darkened every electric sign which might have profaned the scene. As thousands and tens of thousands filed past the bier, all night long the only light was that from funeral torches and the blue "Sacred Flame" which burns eternally beneath the Arch for the Unknown Soldier...
Thornton Niven ("Bridge of San Luis Rey") Wilder threw light upon his past work, and perhaps suggested the nature of future accomplishment, when he announced last week to fiction-conscious Bostonians that: "Literature is the orchestration of platitudes...
...Princeton's witty and learned Dean Christian Gauss hailed the passing of the coonskin. Said he: "Undergraduates who wear coonskin coats now are not nearly so jaunty about it as they used to be; they are quite properly a little shamefaced. Their Eskimoish enduements are relics of the past age of 'collegiatism.' Students now wear them for lack of polo coats or Chesterfields...
...three-quarters of a boat-length, stroking 30 to the minute against Oxford's 32. At Chiswick Church, which marks two miles, Stroke Brocklebank had geared his men to 29 strokes to the minute and they had increased their lead to two lengths. On and on−past Duke's Meadows, Barnes Bridge, Mortlake Brewery and finally to the finish line the Cantabs sped with steady rhythm. They finished seven boat-lengths in the lead, rowing the four miles...