Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime (1929-31) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, helped President Hoover put finishing touches on his Cleveland address. Next day at 7 a. m. the President was breakfasting aboard his Baltimore & Ohio special as it slid out of the Washington yards. At Martinsburg, W. Va. began a series of rear platform appearances that were to continue throughout the 13-hour journey. At Cumberland, Md. where are tariff-protected celanese mills. President Hoover reminded a station crowd that the first measure from the First Congress signed by President Washington was a protective tariff. Dusk had fallen when the train reached Akron...
...cheated of the graft he had expected to get as Governor, got out his short, sharp Chinese war hatchet last week. While Li quaffed rice whiskey and quaked at his friends' jokes, Chen in the flowing robes and silk slippers of a Privy Councilor approached noiselessly from the rear. Eyewitnesses saw only a flash of steel, a gush of blood. Quick as a snake's tongue the hatchet had slipped out of the Privy Councilor's voluminous silk sleeve, split Li's head and vanished into the sleeve again. Grave, bland and without a bloodstain showing...
President Hoover's return to Washington became a series of rear-platform appearances. At Fort Wayne he had come close to crying "Liar!" at Governor Roosevelt. At Johnstown, Pa. a man in the night crowd at the train's end yelled out: "We heard you at Des Moines. Give us three more like that and it'll all be over...
Denikin's, Kolchak's and Petlura's White armies, struck the naked Polish flank. The Poles began a retreat which did not halt until the Russians were at the gates of Warsaw. Day after day for two months the Squadron fought a 400-mi. rear-guard action, covering the evacuation of towns, hindering and harassing Budenny at every turn. Often their base train would slip out of the west of a town as the Cossacks clattered in at the east. Once they were forced to burn planes that failed at the last moment, the pilots escaping...
...Wayne County, N. C., a depressed farmer cut off the rear end of his disused' automobile, fastened shafts to the axle, backed in a mule, went riding. Other farmers, unable to buy 23c gasoline with 7c cotton or $5 tires with n^ tobacco, did the same. Soon the roads of eastern North Carolina were overrun with similar vehicles pulled by mules, horses, oxen, goats or a pair of husky boys. North Carolinians, many of whom had been Hoovercrats in 1928, transposed two letters of the term, called their conveyances Hoovercarts...