Word: send
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought for a moment that a man could go to Geneva without power, backing or prestige and break up a conference. I regard Shearer as an undesirable man to have around. He was likely to do more harm than good. He wouldn't stay hitched. You might send him after the cows and he might take a gun and shoot the farmer's pigs instead. I never saw anybody who could get away with a hand-to-hand encounter with a skunk. I don't mean to call Mr. Shearer a skunk...
...Memphis, Hadley Strange, 18, earning his way through school, testified that as a Prohibition Agent he bought and drank liquor at a speakeasy door. Said the judge: "It is a shame for the United States Government to hire boys like this and send them into alleys to drink whiskey with bums." Agent Strange quickly explained that ordinarily he only tasted, did not drink...
...were the Doukhobors, that strange, lusty Russian religious sect which the Dominion government welcomed as settlers 30 years ago. The Doukhobors are thrifty and healthy. The Doukhobors are peace-loving. But they have ideas of their own and some of them are fanatics. When they do not want to send their children to the government schools, they burn the schoolhouses. When a hot summer sun sends heat waves simmering from the baked ground, the Doukhobors wear heavy clothes. When a cold wind sweeps down from Alaska they often stalk about stark naked. They live on a communistic plan, denounce capital...
...economic. The Germans, Spanish, Dutch and Scandinavians wanted a purely economic "U. S. E." The British, Italians, Hungarians and Albanians were understood to have taken an attitude courteous but noncommittal. Finally "between a pear* and some cheese" M. Briand rose. Would they all authorize him, he asked, to send a circu- lar memorandum and questionnaire to their governments, inviting collaboration and suggestions as to the form which a "United States of Europe" might finally take? It was little enough to ask ? after such a luncheon. Unanimously the guests voted as Host Briand wished?a mere gesture, but without something...
...suspended service to send every plane on the search. Col. Lind- bergh, the line's technical advisor, and his wife flew from Long Island to hunt. The aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga sent ten planes from San Diego harbor; the Army sent squadrons from Texas, California, Nebraska. Western Air Express pilots, keeping up their service, had orders to deviate from their fixed routes to scan remote terrain...