Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they intend to instill in the present generation the standards of the earlier Puritans is not yet known, but the possibility seems unlikely of their succeeding, although they will hold a service "of reconsecration to the principles of the Pilgrim Fathers." Then, seemingly against their purposes, they will proceed to New York where they will be duly entertained in the wicked city...
...their proper level, and the land for new levees. Congressmen from States watered by the Mississippi's tributaries, which the Jones bill did not benefit, were bridling and bickering. To spur their debates to a modest conclusion, President Coolidge hinted that he might have the War Department proceed at once with anti-flood construction, using the authority of the Rivers & Harbors Act and money from the current Army appropriations...
...would be cause for bewilderment if a Manhattan theatre season could proceed to its conclusion without interference from the District Attorney. When Maya (TIME, Mar. 5) was offered to playgoers, some one of them apparently found, in its glum survey of a poetized prostitute, the touch of pitch. Last week the wardens of the peace, in the dreary discharge of their duties, promised to arrest any one who attempted to reopen the play after it had been removed from the stage. It was removed...
...Frankfort, Ill., famed gang battlefield, of whose alleged viciousness he said this to St. Louis citizens: "There's just as good folks up there as ever lived . . . a lot of St. Louis crooks went down there and hid behind machine guns. . . ." On leaving St. Louis, Evangelist Sunday will proceed to Iola, Kan., for six weeks of pouncing, bouncing, trouncing preaching; then he will go to Greenville...
...popularity is due to his sea-roving expeditions through the allied blockades during the war when he camouflaged an armed vessel as a Norwegian fishing schooner with the Count, himself, taking the part of the captain. Thus disguised the ship was able to proceed through enemy zones and sink hostile ships. He boasts to have sent 25 allied ships to the bottom without killing or injuring a man, a fact to which the many medals he has been awarded bear testimony. His adventures before the war when he ran away from home and worked his way around the world...