Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again the auditorium rang with cheers. Bishop Anderson had to repeat the section of his address dealing with the Press. The Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals began preparing copies of the section on Prohibition to send to President Hoover, Governor Roosevelt, Alfred Emanuel Smith and New York's Mayor Walker...
...success in extorting a confession from Kahahawai just before, with a revolver in his hand, his mind went blank. Pretty young Thalia Fortescue Massie had dramatically corroborated her husband's tale. Alienists had sworn that Lieut. Massie was insane at the time; others, that he was not. What rang loudest in the jury's ears, though, were the last things they had heard, the lawyers' summations...
...Iowa month ago Governor Murray went to address great gatherings of farmers, was cheered till the rafters rang. That this sentiment for him was not all noise was revealed this month by a presidential State-wide poll conducted by the Des Moines Register and Tribune. President Hoover got 14,778 out of 17,925 Republican straw votes. Out of 38,732 Democratic votes, Governor Murray led with 13,427; Governor Roosevelt followed with 13,401 and Alfred Emanuel Smith came third with...
Punctually the curtain rang up. Japanese and Chinese officials charged each other with having violated the four-hour truce in various ways. As the shells began to scream again, as the roar of bombing planes played its soft prelude to the thunder of bombs, act II began, and the first actor to speak was Rear-Admiral Toma Uematsu. commander of the Japanese naval landing forces...
...commander, whom the Romans called Africans, and scaled the walls of Carthage. That young man was Tiberius Gracchus, one of a long and famous line. In after years he was elected a Tribune of the people and he became the world's first great democrat. But democracy rang less magnificently in the ears of the people than it does today. Tiberius was scoffed at and rebuked until at last he tried in desperation to hold out the precepts of democracy upon the point of his sword. And the wrath of the city arose and smote him for his impudence...