Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Administration's busy beaverish heir and beneficiary became, as the hyperbolists said, almost deafening. Following his telegram of the acceptance to the G. 0. P. Convention, Nominee Hoover addressed no word to the U. S. electorate. He actively avoided contact with the nation's press. He shut himself in his big, bare office at the Department of Commerce. He left his chunky political secretary, George Akerson, onetime newsgatherer, to answer all questions. Newsmen remarked that this was but a continuation of the policy adopted by Secretary Hoover ever since he seriously began aligning delegates...
Secretary Mellon had descended from his train nervously, shyly, and hurried to shut himself in a hotel suite. He was clinging to his maxim, "There's luck in leisure." Also, obviously, he was under great pressure to draft President Coolidge if possible. He had learned, or accepted, nothing final before leaving Washington.* He still sought conference with other leaders before speaking...
Before Candidate Foster was half through his speech, the broadcasting station (WEAF) which was transmitting his sentiments received ten telephone calls demanding that he be shut off at once. But Candidate Foster was interfered with in no way. He finished, happily of his own accord, well within his allotted time. The Communist campaign...
...helped him look for his synthetic molars. The search had been relinquished as futile, Engineer Bush was back in his cab, and moving forward again when a great shout went up behind him. A local searching party had found his teeth. Amid cheers from the passengers and cries of "Shut your face!" Engineer Bush put them back in his mouth, frowned, and resumed his nonchalant journey...
...Shut-Down. Last week the New York Stock Exchange was again closed on Saturday so that brokers' clerks could catch somewhat up on their back records...