Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helped her into the car and was glad that the chauffeur touched his cap and said "Yessir!" instead of the "Sure, Bub," which had marked the departure from Harvard Square. The motor roared, a gentle laugh rang out, and he forgot the ticking, ticking, ticking meter...
Exploded Canada's rich, pious, bachelor Premier Richard Bedford Bennett when Halifax newshawks on the S. S. Georgic's gangplank asked if he were contemplating marriage: "The impertinence of the Press is amazing! Only a few days ago a newspaperman rang me up while I was at breakfast to ask me whether it was true I had been married that morning. Does it look as if I had been married, when I am sailing for England...
...chairs of the mighty. Here was the scene of the boxing matches so famous in Teddy Roosevelt's time. Often did the little dice click on the floors in some remote, but now dusty corner of the room. Foamy beer trickled down the throats and the room rang with joyous song. This was "the busiest room within the walls of the busiest building in the East" as "Mem" was often termed in days gone by. Today, three men enter the portal. One is elderly, white, and bent with age, one is a man in his fifties, the third...
...conference was to be what Germans call a "meeting of four eyes." It lasted in total secrecy, for more than an hour. Towards the end the 85-year-old President rang for his State Secretary, discreet Dr. Otto Meissner, who added fuel to the flames of curiosity by uttering the words, "Extraordinary cordiality...
While bathing, Pope Pius XI smelled gas, rang for his chamberlain, had the windows opened, himself escorted to another room. An electric water heater was ordered for the papal bathing chamber...