Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frail old Warren Hatcher heaved a sigh of relief one evening last week, put away a heavy bundle of 13 black rods surmounted by a silver eagle, and went home to dinner. And the sigh heaved by quiet Mr. Hatcher, Deputy Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives in charge of the Mace,* echoed the sentiments of many a U. S. citizen...
...fellow businessmen, he had kept mum lest he be accused of self-interest. But, said he, "Obviously the men under investigation now [by Dies] are men of completely contrary belief to mine. . . . The democratic process cannot go on and will be gradually undermined if men can be put on the witness stand without protection of counsel and without any adequate opportunity to answer. There is no more cruel way to destroy the reputation of a man than by publicity, by inference and by innuendo...
...Miss Stevens got a sop. Her chum, and coworker, Minerva Bernardino of the Dominican Republic, was put in as vice chairlady to run things as satrap for the lady from Argentina...
Early in 1914 two royal matchmakers-Nicholas II, last Tsar of All the Russias, and Marie, then Rumania's British-born Crown Princess-put their heads together and decided it would be nice for both their countries if Marie's elder son Carol and Nicholas' eldest daughter Olga were to marry. To push the romance along, Marie and her husband, Crown Prince Ferdinand, took Carol on a trip to Tsarkoye Selo, the Tsar's winter palace outside St. Petersburg, and later His Imperial Majesty & family visited the Rumanian royalty at Constantsa, on the Black...
Accompanied by the West Point band, the soldiers will enter the yard and put on several complicated formations in the Sever Quadrangle, as in past years, and then break ranks to adjourn to the Union for lunch...