Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chosen Commander-in-chief of the Texan Army. On "San Jacinto Day" (April 21) Texans still celebrate the final victory of his 743 raw troopers over the 1600 soldiers of General Santa Anna on the banks of the San Jacinto River near the site where Houston City later rose. Sam Houston was the first and only president of the Republic of Texas (1836-1845). He was U. S. Senator from Texas from 1846 to 1859. Elected Governor, he refused to swear allegiance to the Confederacy, was deposed...
Happy the city whose mayor satisfies for three terms running. Happier the city whose three-term mayor chooses to run again. Last week, Milwaukee rejoiced when Daniel Webster Hoan, who emerged as city attorney in Milwaukee's Socialist landslide of 1910 and rose from that office to the mayoralty in 1916 despite the combined efforts of Republicans and Democrats,* declared that "to quit [now] would mean to unsettle conditions and to disrupt a well organized municipal service which required twelve years of effort to build...
...slender, lovely woman with ivory skin, bright dancing eyes, and a quick queenly smile. She wore, last week, a close, black Parisian fur coat, a chic cloche hat. She and her daughters had never before appeared unveiled in public. Brave, they not only laid aside their veils but rose to the occasion with knee-length skirts. "Viva! Viva!," cried gallants...
...best when she put her Symphony at his disposal, turned out then in great numbers to hear him conduct his own works in a manner almost as gratifying as their own Koussevitzky's. Manhattan heard him next and as pianist under the auspices of her pro-musica society. She rose to her feet when he came on the stage?a slight, aristocratic figure with graying hair. She listened to a program made up of works she had heard long since and approved, pronounced him at the end of the evening far more impressive as a composer than as a pianist...
...Mechanics Building, Boston. Outpouring spectators, still inarticulate with excitement, told them the foreigner had won. Robert Roberti, of Italy was knocked flat for the count of nine in the first round by Monte Munn, U. S.. onetime Nebraska legislator. But, Friday, 13, was unlucky for Munn: Roberti rose foggily, fought savagely, knocked out Munn in the 6th round...