Word: sawing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week President Hoover stuck close to his White House desk, saw few callers, braced himself for a prolonged contest with Congress. ¶ On Thanksgiving Day the President corrected proof on his message to Congress on the State of the Union (see below), punctuating the hours with an 18-Ib. wild turkey, shot in the Blue Ridge Mountains near his summer camp and presented to him by Postmaster William M. Mooney of Washington. With the White House in mourning for Secretary of War Good, only three extra plates were set, for Allan Hoover, Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Rickard. Other doings...
Federal agents, peering through a window of a private house from a back alley, saw steam rising from copper coils, heard the roar of a boiler fire, smelled the sour odor of cooking mash. Although they did not see the moonshiners at work, they broke into the house without warrant, seized the aromatic mash, the steaming still...
Judge Woodrough found the two distillers not guilty. He opined that the agents could enter a house without warrant only if they actually saw the felons at work. Said he: "The entry into the dwelling house and the search of it were unjustifiable and illegal . . . therefore I have ordered the evidence found to be suppressed...
...reveals 17 victories, 13 defeats and two ties; Harvard has scored 508 points to its opponents 322. The new regime started inauspiciously with only three victories out of eight starts. In 1927 the new ideas had taken hold as was shown by the record of four victories; 1928 saw the Crimson score five triumphs and one tie, while it suffered only two defeats. The same record was turned in this fall, but Harvard's schedule was one of the toughest in years. The same major opponents will be faced again in 1930, but Harvard rooters may look ahead with confidence...
...Cohen. He was sent to the work farm for four months. Anna Bellard of Adams, Mass., made out an affidavit at the cemetery office saying she had walked and talked for the first time in five years. Twelve-year-old Rita Averman of Manhattan, blind since infancy, thought she saw light and moving shapes...