Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus observers saw political significance in the President's vacation. They predicted that farmers and farm-paper editors would make pilgrimage to the State Lodge, re-turn better disposed toward a President whose hand they had shaken, whose trout they had consumed...
...London. More than 100,000 people were waiting for Captain Lindbergh at the Croydon Aerodrome. They broke down police barriers, swarmed on the landing-field as soon as his plane was sighted. He swooped down looking for barren ground, saw none, returned skyward. On the second attempt, his plane touched ground, but was forced to rise again because hero-worshipers insisted on dogging his path. His third attempt was rewarded with a clear field. Before he could climb out of his plane, the sea of the mob surrounded him-bowling over women, leaving the official reception committee stranded...
...jurors heard the witnesses, and saw them under cross-examination, and no matter what the presiding judge said, he had no right to charge the jury on a question of fact, and the only issue in this case is on the facts. To follow the suggestion of these sob sisters and sob brothers would be a direct attack on the judiciary of this great old Commonwealth...
...ivory bearer. He still wears the evidence of that gaucherie. I hurried him to see the fat lady. "Wellesley", he whooped, "Wellesley", and bought her picture to send to a friend, named Edgell. Just then there was a cry of alarm from two Watch and Warders. I saw H. T. P. scurry to cover. And out came four ladies from Muscle Shoals, advertising Shreddel Wheat. I hurried my roommate away as fast as his little feet could tarry...
Last week he saw a Yale varsity crew meet its first defeat under his coaching. Princeton, after five years of unimpressive rowing, conquered Mr. Leader's men by taking the lead soon after the start and keeping it. Just before the last quarter-mile of the race a Yale spurt gained, but Princeton reached the finish line with a quarter of a length to spare...