Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cloud by day. When the hosts of rapine were threatening to engulf us, the Democratic Party was the point around which the beleaguered white people of the South rallied and looked for aid, and it is to the everlasting credit of the Republican Party that one of its Presidents saw the evil and came to our assistance. . . . I ask my colleague to withdraw the entire speech...
...They saw, first of all, ten portraits painted in England by John Singer Sargent, never before exhibited in the U. S. Notable among these was the artist's portrait of Lady Sassoon-an arrogant, amazingly refined countenance portrayed with the delicate distinction characteristic of aristocracy and Sargent at their best. There, too, was one of Mr. Sargent's famed Werthheimer portraits. There was Munning's picture of the Prince of Wales on Forest Witch, his graceful chestnut mare. There was Sir James J. Shannon's portrait of the Princess Patricia, loaned by the Duke of Connaught...
...yards. The crowd roared. Nurmi plodded on. One lap, two laps. His levers began to pump a little faster. Ray was tired. Suddenly Ray, suddenly Hahn, heard a great roar that was not for them. The robin's-egg shirt had begun to move. Hahn, Ray, saw it go past them, round the turn, into the last lap. Six yards from the tape, Nurmi looked over his shoulder. He saw Ray, swaying, agonized, fighting to take second place from Hahn. He slowed down, stepped through the tape at a walk. His time- 4:13 3/5-broke by a second...
...America do not appreciate the horrors of war as we do in Europe. I saw a procession in Paris last year of thousands upon thousands of the wrecks which the World War made of young men, who were many of them University students. They were missing arms and legs, and some of them even had only half a face. It was too horrible and overwhelming to describe...
...Saturday, Jan. 4, the two-hour session on the New York Stock Exchange saw 1,474,750 shares sold-a record for the short Saturday session since Aug. 18, 1906, when 1,545,000 shares changed hands. The latter day is the most active of any Saturday in history...