Word: rangeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First idea was to send salesmen out to sell bonds. In 1882 such procedure was regarded as undignified; Mr. Harris and his men were termed doorbell ringers. But Mr. Harris knew that he, small, new, obscure, would never prosper by waiting for investors to call upon him, so he rang the doorbells, sold the bonds, became ancestor of all bond salesmen since...
...admirals to go rather more than half way to meet Mr. MacDonald's ideas of how the U. S. and Britain should achieve first naval parity and then mutual reduction of armaments. Pleased, but unwilling to make a snap decision without expert judgment, the Prime Minister personally rang up the Admiralty, asked First Lord Albert Victor Alexander to step over. When he came and approved the Hoover offer Scot MacDonald hesitated no longer. For more than a month he had been unable to say definitely whether or not he would visit President Hoover in Washington to cement the naval bond...
They got no further than the first stanza. Outraged bourgeois first-nighters bellowed "Outrage!" "Sacrilege!" Socialist defenders of the play shouted "Splendid!" "Colossal!" Terrified for his theatre, the manager rang down the curtain, sent for the police...
Last week the Canadian Rockies around Banff, Alberta, rang with the slogan* of Scottish clans and the skirl of their bagpipes. Descendants of the early settlers from all over the Dominion gathered for their third annual Highland Gathering and Music Festival. They danced the sword dance, sailor hornpipe and Highland Fling. They contended in throwing the caber, putting the stone. But chiefly they piped the bagpipes, vying for 21 prizes...
...Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heavy-jowled, fearsomely mustached, tightly hooked into his light blue tunic, handed his wife into an automobile in front of the Serajevo town hall. A few moments later as the automobile passed by the Lateiner bridge over the Miljacka River, a volley of pistol shots rang out. The Archduke and his wife slumped forward, dead. That shooting by the Serajevo bridge, fuse of the World War, brought death to millions. Incidentally it brought independence from Austria to the province of Bosnia and the creation of the Jugoslav Kingdom. Last week all Jugoslavia celebrated the anniversary...