Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...round of cheers from 3,000 louts, touts and riffraff, who had gathered to see middleweight boxer Mickey Walker aboard the Berengaria, and supposed that the personage,Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York State, had come on the same errand. He had not. Kindly, he had come to say goodbye to James Ramsay MacDonald. They had never met, but Mr. MacDonald had expressed keen regret that illness made it impossible for him to shake the Governor's hand at Albany. Instead they met and immediately parted aboard the Berengaria...
...choice is not easy; but the New York World, courageous, once went so far as to say editorially: "The cult of hatless men, which had few devotees . . . has many now. . . ." Further than this U. S. journalism has preferred not to go in raising an issue, perhaps some day to take its place beside such questions as: "Was Adam an ape-man?"; or "What per cent of alcohol makes a beverage 'intoxicating...
...Some say he had "a boyishly stern squint"; others proclaim him a practical joker and tell how he once answered his roommate's desire for a drink of water with a glass of kerosene. He is 25, more than six feet tall, rangy, handsome, blond. He knows flying as the barnstormer with a $250 plane and as the chief pilot for the St. Louis-Chicago air mail route. He is a prominent member of the Caterpillar Club, having four times become a butterfly and descended to earth in a parachute. In the Missouri National Guard he earned the rank...
Five years ago, Edward O. Leader came from the University of Washington to coach rowing at Yale. It would be mild to say that he revolutionized the sport in the East. He brought more men out for crew than for football; he gave Yale an unbroken record of victories, including the Olympic Championship in 1924; he influenced rowing methods at many another university...
Whereupon, a spectator was heard to say: "The conceit of that man [Tilden], referring to Hunter as the junior member of that team...