Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They saw the President's twig-whacked cheek, waited for him to explain. But President Hoover had more important things to tell about than twig-whacks. With his callers he talked of German reparations-a reduction of U. S. claims as a sacrifice. The conferees gravely nodded their heads, agreed to a modification of U. S. policy. Senator Borah left 15 minutes before the rest. All departed, holding their tongues, wondering if it were too late to keep dinner engagements...
...rained till the Churchill Downs track looked like a brown and olive swamp. The favorite flower of the East was Blue Larkspur, but Man O' War's gelded son Clyde Van Dusen won the race. The other Clyde Van Dusen, his trainer, nearly wept when he saw him come in. His owner, Broom Manufacturer Herbert P. Gardner, did not watch him because he was afraid of the excitement. His jockey, Linus ("Pony") McAtee, who won the 1927 Derby on Whiskery, said "I knew it from the start." More than 60,000 people watched the race, All of them...
...cement. While fir, pine, spruce and hemlock were retained on the free list, other kinds of lumber were put under the tariff, with cedar shingles paying 25% ad valorem. The Oregon shingle industry asked for protection against Canadian imports. Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee, also of Oregon, saw that it got what it wanted. Quick came the claim that the farmer's new profits under the bill would be immediately absorbed by increased costs in building material, paint, clothing, special foods and the like...
When 28 French Republican deputies sat down to their breakfast coffee and croissants* early last week, each found a large crinkly letter from Geneva in his morning's mail. Innocent and refreshed after a sound night's sleep, not one Republican deputy saw anything untoward in the fact that the large crinkly letters were embossed on the stationery of "Foreign Minister Lamidaeff, of the Kingdom of Poldavia." They saw nothing strange in the fact that Poldavians were in financial difficulties, and they found Minister Lamidaeff most thoughtful in not asking for money, but merely for an expression...
During the fifth and sixth frames. Molloy, who had assumed twirling duties, baffled the Villanova willow-wielders, but a series of safe blows in the seventh gave them what proved to be their winning run. The Harvard pitcher had matters well in hand from then on. The final stanza saw the spectacular Crimson rally fail narrowly...