Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon the talks as far away as South Africa. Complete privacy is being striven for by engineers. . . . Mr. Gifford's conversation with Sir Evelyn began at 8:40 a. m. (1:40 p. m. London time), only slightly delayed and never interrupted by static. Then there was a rush of calls. Shortly after 10 a. m. the Associated Press put a call through to its London office, announcing another visit of Edward of Wales to the U. S. and Canada next summer. The New York A. P. man took down the dictated item on a noiseless typewriter. . . . The transatlantic...
...book is only the skeleton for a monster social satire with a few lines of horseplay, suggestions for ironic masterstrokes, sketched in. As the Finance Minister is explaining his aspect of the law, his tongue gets caught in his false teeth. When the law is passed, Christian deputies rush, to make market speculations through their brokers, named Cohn, Kuhn, Kohen, Rosenstrauch, Butterfrass. A high dignitary's wife pulls his hair for exiling their...
Just after the Christmas recess the Green sextet defeated Princeton at Madison Square Garden by a margin of 7 to 2. The Hanoverians trailed at the end of the first period, but came back with a rush...
...paper the prospects for this year's team are very good, Coach Farrell says, and the season will open with a rush. The board track at Soldiers Field has been erected during the vacation, and the men who have been running on bare ground and in the Hemenway Gymnasium will be able to transfer their energies to the Soldiers Field structure. This year the track has been erected about 50 yards back of its old position on account of the new Baseball Cage now in the process of construction...
...miles from Minneapolis.* St. Paul has recently been congratulating itself upon its pre-eminence at Washington. Though both U. S. senators come indeed from Minneapolis, yet the St. Paul roster includes Secretary of State Kellogg, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Edwin Olds.† Solicitor General William D. Mitchell, Rush D. Simmons, in charge of Internal Revenue probes, and a number of others in lesser position."* Last week to this total was added another. Senator Schall, performing one of the most important of Senatorial duties, secured (by buttonholing Mr. Mellon) the promise of appointment for another St. Paul citizen, Carl...