Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cairo, under strongest British pressure accompanied by a $100,000 British loan, the Egyptian Cabinet appropriated $470,000 for rush work on a strategic railway designed to improve defense against a possible invasion of Egypt by Italian forces from Libya. Bloodshed of this sort was being taken for granted in British garrisons throughout Egypt and the Sudan. As if acting in great emergency and unable to wait a few days for a regular British transport, the War Office took over from Cunard the small liner Scythia to be filled with troops in England and rushed to Egypt...
...late did the "Herald Tribune," sponsors of the college poll, rush a second administration question to replace their original on a new dead issue; "Are you in favor of the present administration's agricultural policy as embraced in the A.A.A...
...play down his ancestry (French-Dutch-Scotch-English), play up his U. S. birth and training. Twenty-seven years ago Stieglitz found Marin an art student in Paris, earning a skimpy living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. Rebelling at this finicky scratchwork, Marin would rush out to the country, splash gobs of water color around with one of the biggest brushes he could find. Dealer Stieglitz did not think much of the etchings, but grew so excited about the water colors that he practically adopted John Marin there & then. Ever since, he has handled Marin...
...Louis last week a Solomon delivered his verdict. He was Lawyer Rush H. Limbaugh, acting as special commissioner for the Missouri Court of Appeals in a habeas corpus proceeding which St. Louis newspapers had made front-page news day after day, week after week. The "corpus"which one woman sought from the other was that of a 15-week-old baby whom both claimed to have borne. It had taken three weeks for Commissioner Limbaugh to hear their tales. Plaintiff Anna Ware, broadfaced Pennsylvania servant girl, said she had been working for a couple in Newtown, Pa. when...
...about his heart and lungs to find how many strokes he could stand. Then, before the sunset a regimental parade was held in the drilling yard of the barracks or on the main square of the camp, the guilty soldier lay prone at the centre on a piece of rush mat or burlap, surrounded by the commanding officers and the rows of the armed units. The regimental band of music begins to play. Two corporals press the shoulders of the victim and two the thighs...