Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commons did not repeat last week its orgy of personal revilement of a fortnight ago (TIME, May 16). Instead steady filibustering by Laborites was pursued to the extent of offering some 350 destructive amendments. As a result, only seven words of the first clause of the measure passed second reading, and the Government announced that it would invoke cloture* something which has not been done in the British House of Commons since 1921 (during the latter period of Mr. Lloyd George's Premiership...
...when the Taggart man was the late Thomas R. Marshall. In 1920, Mr. Marshall failed to repeat, but in 1924 it looked much as though Boss Taggart had engineered successfully? until the late Senator Samuel M. Ralston (a perfunctory Taggart man that year) withdrew his name...
According to an affidavit of Robert C. Benchley, dramatic editor of Life, Judge Thayer said all these things to Mr. Loring Goes, of the Goes Wrench Co., Worcester, Mass., at the Worcester Golf Club. Mr. Goes, said Mr. Benchley, repeated Judge Thayer's remarks to him (Benchley). But Mr. Goes last week "flatly denied" the truth of Mr. Benchley's affidavit; recalled no conversation in which Judge Thayer flayed Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti; said: "I have known Judge Thayer since 1908. I have never heard him use language that he could not repeat in mixed company...
...from Davidson and Fons. Neither of these hurlers compare with Owen Carroll, the peer of Purple pitchers, who held away on college diamonds several years ago, but both are reliable and occasionally turn in a sterling performance. Fons proved capable of downing the Crimson forces last spring and may repeat his feat this year...
...Bloody Trail." A band of outlaws believed to be the same as those who attacked with frightful butchery the Guadalajara-Mexico City Express (TIME, May 2) attempted to repeat this outrage last week, upon a Juarez-Mexico City train...