Word: rang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weary one 10 a. m. last week Scot MacDonald boarded The Flying Scotsman. As she puffed out of London a dining car steward offered place tickets for lunch and the Prime Minister took one. Snorting swiftly North, the famed express had crossed one-third of England before luncheon bells rang. With scant appetite the leader of the "National Government" forked food mechanically. Into the diner walked a lifelong friend, Arthur Henderson, leader last week of the Labor Party which Mr. MacDonald led a few short weeks ago. The two men neither spoke nor nodded, cut each other dead...
Even amid frenzied electoral strife last week, the Chilean Government lent friendly ears to U. S. Ambassador William Smith Culbertson. While the welkin rang with anti-U. S. slogans, he signed with Chilean Foreign Minister Luis Izquierdo an agreement, retroactive to May 22 last, which lowers Chilean tariffs clapped on imports from the U. S. at that time, means that Chile grants the U. S. "most favored nation status...
...their excitement and expectation about independence from the U. S. They had been told that if they only stood together they would soon be free. They had marched until their feet ached. The)' had cheered until they were hoarse. They had listened to harangues until their ears rang. They had been inspected by junketing U. S. Senators and Representatives until they passed from self-consciousness to selfimportance. But Secretary Hurley's visit, they were assured, was different from all these, because no less a person than President Hoover had dispatched his War Chief to their islands...
Very quickly telephones rang, messages arrived to say that this man was a Professor Ivantsov, mathematician at the Moscow Industrial Academy. U. S. reporters hurried around to Police Department headquarters to learn more about the mysterious end of Professor Ivantsov...
...touch with Madrid. A noisy, long-drawn battle was waged between police and Syndicalists in front of the latter's headquarters. They gave up when mountain guns were unlimbered across the street. Sailors rushed a hundred of them on board warships in the harbor. A volley of shots rang out from doorways facing the tree-lined Rambla Flores, sloping down to the harbor. A Civil Guard whirled on his heel and fell, seriously wounded, among the flower pots and twittering bird cages of the market...