Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several times a week I place orders with New York firms for goods of perishable nature, and the orders, placed by air mail, are delivered in our receiving room exactly 14 days to a day after the order is mailed. Several days faster than you state, and this service is available daily by Mr. Shoup's Southern Pacific as well as the Santa...
...vacationing Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams hung a matter requiring the wisdom of Solomon. The time for awarding the Navy's annual pennant to the battleship most efficient in engineering, gunnery and communication was drawing near. Two battleships, New Mexico and Maryland had tied for first place in the complex system of scoring. Never before had a Secretary of the Navy to meet such an unprecedented crisis...
...London. Obligingly he "flicked" for the 80 delegates. Pointing a well-shod toe, taking a step forward with the right foot, bringing the left across so that the ankles touch, the "flickerer" then stamps smartly with the right foot, executing a quick chasse (chasing the right foot out of place with the left). Another step and stamp with the left foot and one has "flickered." Repeat rapidly to fox trot time...
...chuffed out he talked to French correspondents with unwonted bonhommie. "I couldn't pass through Paris without seeing M. Briand, messieurs!" cried Pere MacDonald while Daughter Ishbel beamed. "Say simply that two old friends have met. The visit was purely personal. My old friend 'happens' -I place the emphasis on 'happens'-to be Prime Minister of France...
...Lincoln, Neb., "the lady shall place her left hand on the gentleman's right shoulder or arm and her right hand on the gentleman's left hand, the gentleman's right hand on the lady's back, and at all times the patrons shall keep their bodies at least six inches apart...