Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Western Stock Marketing Association said that the co-operative plan was "not a radical proposition," as it did not involve federal control of prices. He said that President Coolidge, while not committing himself to Government cattle-aid, appeared "sympathetic." ¶The President informed newspaper correspondents that he saw no need for a special flood session of Congress. The President has issued this information at frequent periods during the past several weeks...
...while walking in a park and quoting Goethe to a friend that Nikola Tesla "saw" the induction motor that first brought him fame. He was able to draw it with a stick on the sandy path in the exact detail with which he presented it, six years later, to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...
Thoroughly they investigated, bitterly they wrote last week-the editors of UnitÀ Cattolica, daily newspaper of Florence, Italy: "We saw one day in the streets of Florence a woman of the aristocracy dressed with the most rigid economy, who wore on her naked breast a gold cross. The symbol of sacrifice and sorrow joined with the crudest form of mundanity; the emblem of redemption resting on perfumed flesh; the blessed, mortal bed of Christ put in contrast with an instrument of the most lascivious seduction...
...That American Legion band, with its gigantic bandmaster is a sight I shall never forget and I saw London after the armistice." ?A. R. Gatter of San Francisco...
Chief of Police Joseph Wakelin soon saw that the "extra" was the work of no Hot Springs newspaper, that it was evidently a publicity stunt for the film, Tell It To The Marines, starring Lon Chaney, showing that night at a local theatre owned by one Sidney M. Nutt. Chief Wakelin instantly caused Mr. Nutt's press agent, one Charles Hefley, to be arrested...