Word: pile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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West of the White House, in the city of Washington, rises the great pile that is the State, War and Navy Building. Therein sit two gentlemen who are in charge of the U. S. policy in the Far East. One of them is the Secretary of State, whose subordinates at Tokyo, at Peking, post to do his bidding. The other is the Secretary of War, whose subordinate at Manila functions as the Governor General of the Philippines...
...reflection on the weakness of the Engineers but rather a testimony of the Crimson's power. For Captain Dunker's team was forced to break the half-mile, javelin, and high jump dual meet records and turn in noteworthy results in nearly every event in order to pile up such a score...
WILBUR THE HAT-Hendrik Van Loon-Boni, Liveright ($3.50). Wilbur, a hat blown into Kingdom Come, found himself drifting down one of the principal waterways of that monarchy accompanied by a certain cricket. Wilbur saw a pile of debris ("The ancient Gods," said Cricket, "who had meant so much for so long that people could not let them be sold for junk"), the greatest of the world's builders, a whittling man (Stradivari), a place that smelled of onions (the Acropolis), a resigned figure absolutely alone on an island the size of a dollar (Jesus Christ). Irritated with...
...Gross '27 would be a Grade-A prima donna in any college production, and but for the presence of the boy-friend Wilson, would lead this review; instead he is generously content to complement the other's piquancy with a substantial loveliness of his own, and to pile up the Harvard score by taking second place, or four points. And of the four leading squaws, not the least is A. M. Carrillo '26, who is doing yeo-man (F) duty in lobby and rotogravure display. Mr. Lyon, the dowager, makes up in elevation what he may lack in the delivery...
...patrol the floor, looking for an opening to move adjournment. Senator McKellar talked about Muscle Shoals. Senator Heflin denounced The New York Times for editorially attacking the President for backing down on the Warren nomination, saying the President had been right in that. Senator Stanchfield of Oregon, with a pile of manuscript, began to read a speech about "homeowning banks," but he skipped a good bit of it. Cole Blease, the new and bumptious Senator from South Carolina, asked unanimous consent to insert remarks in the record. Mr. Curtis objected, so Mr. Blease began to read his remarks, telling...