Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sayre (whom President Wilson gave in marriage from the White House) had spoken.? So had Senator David Ignatius Walsh, rocking the building with the announcement that Senator Norris had come out for Nominee Smith (see p. 16). The cheering on the appearance of the Happy Warrior was the peak of the New England trip, perhaps the peak of his campaign. When it was stilled, Mrs. Sayre quoted what Woodrow Wilson said of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Another outburst. Then the Nominee spoke: ". . . We shall use words to convey our meaning?if the orators in the gallery will only just subside...
...down mine shaft, into great administrative and engineering projects. . . . "His university is Leland Stanford, but his true Alma Mater is the map of the world. . . . "A vote for Hoover is a vote for belching smokestacks, flaring furnaces, clanging hammers, busy looms, honest and permanent agricultural relief - a vote for peak production, for steady employment, for the song of the riveter, for more automobiles - a vote for better government, for sounder business practice, for full time and fuller pay envelopes - a vote for impartial legislation, for the integrity of the Constitution, for continued equality before opportunity and the law - a vote...
...Switzerland, last week, there was a sudden muffled roar in the Arbedo Valley. The tip of Monte Arbino, 9,000 feet above the level of the sea, was seen to quiver. One rock, then another, bounced and skidded down the mountain's side. Finally the whole peak slid clumsily into the surrounding valley. A huge cloud of dust spouted upward, for several days hung heavily over the scene of the avalanche...
...entire activity centering around the Union will reach its peak on election night when the Union has secured a direct wire from Western Union for the service of its members. Election results will be transmitted over the wire to the Union at intervals during the evening...
...sentimentality. Richard Bennett does most of the acting; Joan Bennett, his daughter and the sister of famed Constance Bennett, is beautiful and well cast as the 16-year-old unfortunate. The truest thing in Jarnegan is the performance, provided by Wynne Gibson, of a dipsomaniac star arriving at the peak of her intoxication; hearing noises in the night, she surmises that the owls are after her; with puzzled insolence she abuses an extra girl and wraps herself wildly in a black lace shawl...