Word: smote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Journalistic Homers have sung for years the deeds of the Eastern trunk lines in their unceasing consolidation battles. Last week they smote a new chord on their lyres, began a new canto of the railroad epic. They turned to the West and the great Western railroads. In San Francisco last week sat Charles D. Mahaffie, Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Before him came Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern, Paul Shoup, President of the Southern Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, Western Pacific Board Chairman, Harry M. Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these...
William Wallace Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania R. R., lost six blooded horses, a calf, farm machinery, half of his crop of hay and wheat, when lightning and fire smote the barn of his estate near Philadelphia...
...great City of Purity is working up. First it smote Dreiser, a contemporary, but for that reason not a sufficiently illustrious scalp. Hence it was found necessary to go back 170 years, to fasten upon an author who has indubitably stood the test of time. Shakespeare's turn is next, we see it coming! Daily Princetonian
...year-old Groom-in-Waiting and Extra Equerry of Edward of Wales is Colonel and Honorary Brigadier General Gerald Frederic Trotter, perhaps H. R. H.'s closest elder friend. A heart attack smote General Trotter last week, rendering him unconscious for several hours. Instantly Hunter Wales despatched a native runner to the two Royal field telegraphers, encamped some miles away near a tapped wire. So fervent were their calls for help that a motor cavalcade of doctors and nurses set out from Kampala, 200 miles distant, under the impression that the Heir Apparent was dying. They made the distance...
Candidate Lowden, the determined Farmers' Friend, returned to Chicago after visiting Washington and Manhattan, and indulged in the sport of candidates. He enunciated an Issue. He paced the floor of his office, shook his silvery poll, pounded his desk, even smote listening newsgatherers on thigh and chest to publish his point...