Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blows, yells of rage and pain filled the Chamber. A dozen Deputies scuffed on the floor kicking, pushing, slapping. President Herriot, having worn himself out calling for order, put on his silk hat and betook his full-dressed self from the Chamber as a sign that the session was suspended. It was also a signal for the attendants to clear the public galleries. An excited attendant, with marks of a maturing black eye, rushed to the signal box and instead of pushing the button to signal the sergeants-at-arms to clear the galleries, he pressed one that called...
...Burton may have sighed, privately, his thanks that at last he had something to sign. For he had been in a difficult position. He was attending a League Conference, pledged to have nothing to do with the League. He was dealing with a group of interests more diverse, and men more scheming than he had met even in his long career in U. S. politics. Then, too, he was an old man, 74, who had served 17 years in the House as Congressman from Ohio, then 6 years in the Senate (1909-15), and has already rounded out more than...
...Cuddle Up to Me and the delivery of brief but maudlin orations in behalf of race tolerance for the entertainment of an audience that could not but be conscious that, at another theatre only two doors away, leered, as it has for many a long year, a great yellow sign-the advertisement for Abie's Irish Rose...
...being ashamed of my lack of knowledge, like your correspondent Monsieur Beaucaire (TIME, June 1), I cast aside such titles as Madame Bernhardt, Queen Elizabeth, etc. -and hasten to sign myself...
Instead of lingering to sign cinema contracts, touring engagements, news syndicate offers and other routine business of the modern open champion, Willie Macfarlane went back to Tuckahoe. He had some engagements to give lessons to the members of his club. Before he went, said he: "I feel that defeating Bobby Jones is a greater honor than winning two or three open championships...