Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tony came to the Berkenmeer hospital with an injured arm which, it was tacitly understood among the golfing-aviators, would not prevent him from breaking anyone's jaw. But "Berkenmeer was meant for 'officers and gentlemen,' as the phrase ran"; so, acting on an inverse snobbism, Tony kept to himself. The only man with whom Tony had anything in common-they could both walk on their hands-was Harvey Sayles, an educated and war-shocked aviator, who thought out loud because he liked to hear himself think. He was the kind of a man who reads...
...more than a quarter of a century she worked on University publications, again and again taking proof home for hard work out of hours. Not a comma escaped her if concentrated intelligence could prevent. In her love of detail there was no dull routine; there was deathless enthusiasm; no detail could deaden her; to whatever she touched she gave life. Indeed, she and a comma together would furnish any third part with lively commany...
...situation in Ohio has been well handled by State militia whose orders were to relieve suffering, prevent violence, take no sides. In Pennsylvania, however, Governor John B. Fisher continued to be inactive and uncommunicative...
...Since the beginning of time men with the best intentions have been writing laws for our good. Since the beginning of time brave and valiant women have been abolishing these same laws. . . ." ¶ Throughout the week Chief U. S. Delegate Charles Evans Hughes labored manfully in subcommittee to prevent the drafting into a code of Pan-American International Law of any clause which would tend to prevent the U. S. from intervening in Latin American countries...
...book, everything is neatly explained. Sutton is indeed the squealer and he will hang for his bad acts; his secretary is his accomplice. Captain Leslie is none other than the shrewd Detective Barrabal; he will marry Beryl. Tillman is a newsmonger, whose disagreeable imposture does not prevent his comic confrere from getting the real scoop on the squealer mystery...