Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excitement lapsed a personage strode aboard. He received a round of cheers from 3,000 louts, touts and riffraff, who had gathered to see middleweight boxer Mickey Walker aboard the Berengaria, and supposed that the personage,Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York State, had come on the same errand. He had not. Kindly, he had come to say goodbye to James Ramsay MacDonald. They had never met, but Mr. MacDonald had expressed keen regret that illness made it impossible for him to shake the Governor's hand at Albany. Instead they met and immediately parted aboard the Berengaria...
Lucky Men. The pageant began when Their Majesties arrived at Victoria Station, London, to await M. le Président. Round about stood, like seeming giants, the Foot Guards in their enormous, tall, bearskin hats. On prancing coal black horses sat stiffly the Horse Guards, clad in white buckskin breeches and silver-plated body armor. Across the Royal Waiting Room and down the platform was spread a great crimson carpet...
...Chicago, biscuit and cracker men held a convention. "There's an appropriate cracker for every time of day," they said, ". . . for every type of person from the baby to the dyspeptic." They showed one another 157 varieties of crunchable goodies, including a specially designed, round creation of which the crumbs were guaranteed soft enough to make the cracker safe...
Reports late last night stated that five Crimson athletes had qualified in yesterday's trial round, but varied as to who the fifth...
...animals, strange deformities were noticed. In commenting on this Professor Parker stated that it must be expected that in abnormal processes one often receives distorted results. When an embryo hick which was fertilized in this manner by the radiation of the ultra violet rays started to develop it was round that it grew to have only one eye and its heart was broken into a number of separate pieces, each one of which palsated independently...