Word: quest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul A. McDuffey, six-foot strapping White House policeman, off duty one night when his family was out of town, had a sudden longing for pigs' feet. In quest of this delicacy he went to South Capitol St., was set upon by three sailors, doped, seriously wounded...
...after running the gauntlet across Harvard Square and finding no bones broken, I considered the afternoon's work sufficient. Heaving a sigh for the great open streets of Louisville where Fords are Fords, not battering rams, and freshmen are not prospective hospital patients, I began the annual freshman quest--compared to which Sir Lancelot's search for the Holy Grail was without hardships--for enough sheets, blankets, dowels, soap, and divers other necessities of life which I had heretofore imagined inseparable from every bedroom and bathroom to make life livable until the long-promised and long-awaited trunk appeared...
...there is any truth in the old proverb about the success of the early bird in the quest of the wily norm, Tammany should have its way in the National Democratic Convention of 1928: for already, long before the dawn of the next presidential campaign, that organization's representatives are beginning to flit about and chirp noisily. The first flight, of course, has been southward. where the game is biggest, although most elusive...
...invented but recreated out of deep understanding and sympathy for people Gobineau came to know in his wide travels as a diplomat. The Dancing Girl of Shamahka involves the racial pride of Tartars suckled in a dizzy nest among Caucasian crags. The Illustrious Magician: wifely devotion, the burning quest of gaunt dervish and the dilemma of a thorougbred Mussulman. The Love of Kandahar: Romeo and Juliet among the haughty, feudmaking Afghans. They are keen-edged tales, scabbarded in language of bygone elegance, glinting fine irony...
...investigation which led to the oil lease scandals. In 1924, calling dissatisfied farmers, radicals and socialists to his banner, he ran independently for President. He got over 4,000,000 popular votes and 13 electoral votes?Wisconsin's. His last year was spent mostly away from Congress, in quest of health in Florida...