Word: rangeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While echoes of Governor General Stimson's inaugural speech still rang in the Philippine press, a short, swart, bald, bearded little man in Washington put finishing touches on a speech of his own, sent it to the U. S. House of Representatives, caused his trunks to be packed and, with his wife, started for home. Governor General Stimson had declared flatly his opposition to Philippine independence in anything like the near future (TIME, March 12). The little man in Washington, Resident Commissioner Isauro Gabaldon of the Philippines, was resigning and going home, not only to keep independence sentiment alive...
...telephone rang and said, "Secretary Mellon will wait 15 minutes longer for you." Mayor Walker eased into his modish overcoat and observed: "I am happy wherever I am. That's why I hate to leave...
...holder of a ringside seat ($22.50) as Jack Sharkey climbed through the ropes last week in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, to fight "Honest John" Risko, Cleveland "rubber man." Experts had picked Sharkey. So had gamblers. Risko was tough, they said, but Sharkey was tough and fancy. When the bell rang, Risko made Sharkey miss a left, landed a left to the jaw. All through the fight he hooked to the chin and made Sharkey jerk his legs up when he hit him" in the stomach. When the decision went to Risko, Sharkey struck a pose, stared disdainfully...
Lauder. Now on his "5th Annual Farewell Tour" of the U. S. is Sir Harry Lauder. Last week in Manhattan he rang a new change on his old story of how, when his son John was killed in the War, he pocketed his grief "and was singing for the Tommies four days later." Last week he claimed that, although stricken with grief at the death of Lady Lauder (TIME, Aug. 8), he has again mastered himself and "Now I find singing the only way to forget...
...Haig-right or wrong-was, whenever necessary, ready to resign." Not until all armies neared the brink of exhaustion was the thrift of Haig vindicated by the might of his at last forged and case hardened troops. If Scotch in husbandry, he was Scotch in fortitude, in personal valor. Rang in his ears an ancestral catch: "What e're betide, what e're betide, Haig shall be Haig of Bemerside!" Did he hum those words when, amid a murderous fire at Ypres, he went to hearten his troops within the battle area itself? Characteristically the last formal...