Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening's session began with Public Hall jammed to capacity. Wild applause and cheering greeted every speaker and the roll, call of states, on the last ballot especially, was accomplished only with difficulty. Judge William S. Kenyon of Iowa, reputed this afternoon to have the backing of President Coolidge, was well supported on the first ballot, which was divided between a great number of candidates...
When the California delegation in the next roll call, swung a majority of its votes to Hoover, confidence was felt among his supporters that he would secure the nomination. Watson, Kenyon, and DuPont figured in the balloting at first, but the issue soon narrowed down to Hoover and Dawes. Kansas gave '28 votes to the latter, Maine 16, Maryland 17, Minnesota 25, and so it went until pandemonium reigned in the ranks of the "hero of the reparations situation," and the landslide bewan. State after state declared for Dawes, the climax coming when New York and Pennsylvania gave...
...members of the Reichstag did not help matters by hissing and roaring long and loud, "Throw them out." Neither did Herr Bock diminish the noise one iota by waving his private bell and squeaking "Order! Order!" Finally, everyone had to stop to draw breath. Officials began to call the roll. Everyone waited for the L's and the T's with breath bated and hearts palpitating. The Communists yowled whenever a Communist failed to answer his name, which usually meant that he was in prison; when the name of Prince von Bismarck, grandson of the Iron Chancellor...
...After roll-call, business was attempted, but with small success. Herr Bock tinkled his bell, announced that the session was over. Immediately the Communists shrieked the Internationale and Monarchists roared Deutschland Über Alles as they left the Chamber...
...Northern Baptists assembled at Milwaukee in the full year of Fundamentalism. Naming a dozen leading universities, Dr. Riley of Minneapolis said: "When today you call the roll of these schools you name the captains of the hosts of Hell. They marshal their forces to fight the authority of the Book, the blood atonement and every Christian fundamental. . . . Satan is busy. . . . Our refusal to cackle over every discovery of dinosaur eggs 10,000,000 years old or to enthuse over Science, falsely socalled, has led some men to name us ignoramuses . . . but is it not well to remember that Christ...