Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death bed, last week, the Dowager Empress whispered a wish to say farewell to the chief of her still faithful Cossack Guard. With tears streaming uncontrollably down his cheeks the giant Cossack came and knelt at her bedside. "God and all his Holy Angels receive you!" he cried, "I shall not survive you long, Matoushka Tsaritsa! I shall come to serve you in Heaven...
Prohibition was also the aperitif at the Boston clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons last week. Franklin N. Martin of Chicago, president of the College, interrupted his formal inaugural talk to say: "More than two-thirds of our people morally and spiritually favor the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. In spite of the injudicious administration, which has resulted in an orgy of lawbreaking, of self-indulgence and ridicule on the part of the other one-third of our citizens, the foundation has been laid for a demonstration of race betterment and extension of life that will astonish...
...design upon the cliff with a gigantic stereopticon and marked the outlines accordingly. Feverishly vexed was Mr. Borglum when his contracts were cancelled. He smashed his models (TIME, March 2, 1924 et seq.). Said he: "Am l a plumber to be hired by a committee? I am not. They say that I have loafed on the job, don't they? There isn't a corpuscle of my blood that loafs." The Stone Mountain Association appointed Virginian Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman to succeed Mr. Borglum. "Delighted," said Mr. Borglum, with heavy irony...
...course, I got back from Europe only two days ago, so that I don't know a lot about them, but they do not seem to me to be on the job. They should have canvassed every professor in the University, and got him to say for whom he was voting, and what his reasons were for supporting that candidate. Then the Republican Club, for instance, would have done something worth while both towards promoting Hoover, and towards strengthening the prestige of the club...
...say that Smith is better prepared than Hoover for the job seems to me to ignore their respective records. To say that Smith expresses a greater desire for action than Hoover on certain national issues seems to me to confuse a loud voice with a quieter attitude. Their familiarity with undergraduate "bull" should help them to avoid this mistake. With the statement that Smith, if elected, will arouse the citizens of the United States, I agree...