Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said. He was hoping the farmers from his section of the land would insist upon the nomination coming to him. He thought he could win the trust of all the other kinds of men whose influence counted. Men had called him another Cincinnatus. He let his friends play up the farm idea and prepared to be called from the plow. . . . But he answered curtly the reporters who questioned him. Once, at the Kansas City railroad station, he gave a Hearst newshawk an ungentle shove and said: "You newspaper men will get along better with me if you wait until...
...such iniquities to proceed. ... I hardly think that the United States would appear to greater advantage when paying for an odious crime against state law than when inciting to the disregard of its own. . . . It is a lesser evil that some criminals should escape than that the Government should play an ignoble part...
...flew right out of the wings" they said. Calmly they turned off the ignition (to prevent fire in the crash) and jumped out with parachutes. The fuselage came to earth in the stables of the Meadow Brook Club, killing two polo ponies: Gay Boy, used in the International Cup Play last autumn by Malcolm Stevenson, and Anaconda, also prized. Said William Averell Harriman, financier, owner of the two ponies: "They were two of the best polo ponies in the world. I raised them from colts. They were priceless...
...blind you can't play games in which balls are used. You can't box, play hockey or lacrosse, pole vault, or fence. But you can do the broad jump, the hop, step, and jump, the standing high jump, and the shot put. You can also run races, though for that there has to be a special equipment and because this equipment is hard to fix up for long distances blind men usually only run sprints...
...after Houston has nominated Al Smith. Or maybe Mr. Hoover will retire to the country side to take a few secret lessons from the champion fly-caster of the world. There is even a possibility that the bent pin and the tin can of worms may be called into play at the strategical moment to swing the farmers into line...