Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elephant weighed four tons. President Coolidge went to see for himself. Mrs. Coolidge, in summery white hat, suit and gloves, went too. They took seven-year-old Suzanne Boone and her parents. (Dr. Joel T. Boone is White House physician.) With Mr. Ringling by their side they saw the land elephants and lots of other creatures. President Coolidge shook hands with plump little Lilian Leitzel, the show's regal trapeze artist. And before hurrying back to his duties, President Coolidge discovered that a sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirounga leonina), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible...
...Commons debate was renewed, and savagely, upon the Budget. Tough, veteran Laborites such as the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden-Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1924-licked anticipatory chops when they saw that Chancellor Churchill had sent as his deputy, Mr. Arthur Michael Samuel, Financial Secretary of the Treasury...
...beloved President of the Soviet Union.* The effect of his sombre simple garb upon King Amanullah, who for four months has been feted by Presidents in sleek tail coats and Monarchs attired as field marshals, must indeed have been impressive. Darting a quick glance about the station, His Majesty saw not a single silk hat or full dress uniform. Behind the President were grouped several Commissars (Ministers) clad as simply as he, and behind them, filling the station square, stood rank upon rank of Soviet infantry and a detachment of Red Cossack cavalry. President Kalinin, stepping forward and extending...
...house, where not even the Irish caretaker is stirring. Memories of his late irascible father haunt him as he climbs to his old room which is filled with prep-school photos and trophies and the heavy perfume of flowers. In the sudden electricity, the most beautiful girl he ever saw sits bolt upright in the middle of his old bed, and orders him out of the house. He returns next day to find her vanished. But Author Miller can be relied upon to make out of her not the psychic fantasy of Bentham's weary mind, but the heroine...
...house 'they had found it necessary to kill the fellow. Accustomed to sharp-edged violence, all four awaited death with proud fortitude, accepting last rites of their faith from Datu Tahil, a Moro Chieftain staying at their prison for inciting a rebellion on Jolo Island. When they saw the chair, three of the condemned men quailed, collapsed. The fourth was calm in the face of heaven's lightning. He believed, though he saw how the lightning was turned upon him, that houris would drag him into Paradise by his singed topknot...