Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curtis Dwight Wilbur, onetime (1024-29) Secretary of the Navy, walked into a drug store at Arbuckle, Calif., gave a clerk 10¢ for a stein of root beer which he had drunk in 1920 and had not paid...
...last sensational campaign speech in New York by a Secretary of State occurred in 1906 when Elihu Root, speaking for President Roosevelt, charged that the agitation for Cuban independence in the newspapers of William Randolph Hearst, that year's Democratic gubernatorial nominee, had been largely responsible for President McKinley's assassination...
...flayed cardplaying (bridge). He was alarmed by this new thing called movies, He flayed parents who let "boys 12 years old send flowers to little girls and go in carriages to escort them to balls." (He has now abandoned this gen- eral lire, doubtless because he finds the root-trouble is much deeper.) The man's fame grew by books, simple, devotional, polished. Largely distributed through the Y. M. C. A., The Manhood of the Master, The Meaning of Prayer and others have reached a total sale of some 1,000,000 copies in the U. S. and have...
Months ago Mr. Hoover indicated that the Senate, during its short session next December, would be asked to vote U. S. adherence to the World Court. Even with the "Revision Protocol" blocked, adherence could be voted by the Senate with acceptance of the famed "Root Protocol," the two being parallel documents. But last week the President, far from whipcracking Cuba or preparing to wheedle the Senate, gave correspondents to understand that he plans postponement of the entire issue until next year...
...causes the pungent odor, is used in many perfumes. "Musk" was originally the name of musk deer perfume, later was transferred to all animals and plants which had a similar odor. Some musk animals: muskrat, musk duck, musk beetle, musk shrew, musk turtle, musk kangaroo. Plants: musk mallow, musk root, musk clover, musk orchis, musk okra...