Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instantly President Roosevelt, without hat or overcoat in the chill wind, swung around to the crowd before him, launched vigorously into his inaugural address. His easy smile was gone. His large chin was thrust out defiantly as if at some invisible, insidious foe. A challenge rang in his clear strong voice. For 20 vibrant minutes he held his audience, seen and unseen, under a strong spell. Only occasionally was he interrupted by cheers & applause...
...kind of man to take his own life . . . not a quitter." In 1923 Fell was fined $500 and costs on his discharged butler's complaint that Fell and two servants had beaten him and tried to brand him with a torch because the butler knew Fell rang false fire alarms for excitement. Next month his wife divorced him on grounds of drunkenness...
...chance to keep his title by a strong finish. There was one exchange in which both men stood still in the centre of the ring, trading punches with mathematical fairness; the round ended in the pattern of the fight, Fields charging in, Corbett punching. When the bell rang, Referee Kennedy took the title to Corbett's corner...
...Before pushing the sheets apart, I rang up Low. 'I'be god id,' I said. Then I sneezed several times, and, being unable to find where I'd blown the telephone to, I had to leave it at that and bimble upstairs. So I never knew till afterward about Low having caught influenza...
...nearest thing to a beat occurred when the New York Times was the first in print with a long-distance telephone interview with Heroine Lillian Johns Cross. The New York Journal rang through first but, being an evening sheet, did not use its interview until hours after the Times. Mrs. Cross was kept awake most of the night responding to other press queries...