Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sheet was flown from the rear of the Weyerhaeuser home, visible far out on Puget Sound and apparently a signal to the kidnappers. Mrs. Weyerhaeuser departed for Seattle and two notices were published, according to the kidnappers' directions, in the Post-Intelligencer, the first saying, "expect to be ready to come Monday," the second pleading: "Due publicity beyond our control please indicate another method reaching you. Hurry relieve anguished mother." But the week-end passed without George's return. Of all George's friends and relations, most optimistic was his schoolteacher. Said she: "He has such...
...their resemblance ends. Joe Jones is a handsome, aggressive youngster who takes no patronage from anybody. At 14 he finished St. Louis' Benton Grade School, ran away to California, ran right back to his housepainter father whom he has since painted, with a gin bottle and from the rear to hide the fact that he had but one arm. Father Jones said: "The worst thing about that whole business was sitting there all that time beside the empty bottle...
After an almost even start, the Sailors soon held a slight lead, trailed by Harvard and Penn. As they passed the half-way mark, the Quakers slid into the lead, with the Crimson boat considerably in the rear. The leaders alternated for first place on the remaining stretch, and in the last hundred yards both pushed their beat into the 40's, the last smooth sweeps of the Penn crew allowing it to retain its narrowing lead over the checking Navy boat...
...blared, crowds cheered, flags waved, aircraft soared, cannon boomed, lightning flashed from the heavens across the Potomac. The sun, which had been playing hide-&-seek all day, suddenly shone forth brilliantly. Down the gangplank of the barkentine icebreaker Bear of Oakland, leading his men in impressive single file, marched Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, retired, resplendent in white uniform, to revisit the U. S. for the first time in nearly two years...
...least 22 separate branches of science." Then the President of the United States took off his hat and said: "Admiral, I salute you." Then Franklin Roosevelt grasped the Admiral's hand and said: "And let me add just one thing from the heart: Dick, I salute you!" Said Rear Admiral Byrd: "Mr. President, I am very glad that you have mentioned our old friendship, because if you had not, good taste would have prevented my doing so. . . . There certainly would be something wrong with me if I did not get a tremendous kick out of that." Also very much...