Word: sped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week Secretary Newton sped by air and rail from Washington to Minneapolis where his six-year-old son had been run over by a street car while riding a bicycle, had had a leg amputated...
...Ambassador hustled to London, hustled to his desk at No. 4 Grosvenor Gardens, Mrs. Dawes and daughter Virginia sped to the Ambassadorial home in Prince's Gate (once J. Pierpont Morgan's), began unpacking furniture. Early the next day Mr. Dawes decked himself in a morning coat, clapped a silk hat on his head, hustled to Paddington Station, where British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson stood stiffly awaiting. Mr. Dawes grabbed his hand, said something to make him smile, hustled into a train for Windsor to present his credentials to the King. No predecessor had ever done this...
Last week Owen D. Young, returning to the U. S. from the successful Reparations conference in Paris, followed Hero's Highway from sea to land. He left the S. S. Aquitania at Quarantine, sped up the harbor on a special tug, landed at Manhattan's Battery, motored up Broadway past City Hall. But not one whistle blew for Hero Young. Not one ecstatic cheer rose for him. Not one inch of ticker tape fell upon him. Insistently refusing a public reception, Hero Young made his homecoming a strictly private affair...
...Clerk John McCabe, who had gathered together a vast assortment of press clippings on the pending Tariff and Farm Relief Bills, pasted them in large scrap books. The President was disturbed to find that 90% of the press sentiment was against the House's Tariff handiwork. Around Washington sped the gossip that he would veto the Tariff Bill unless the Senate altered it to conform more nearly to popular desires...
...standing alone at the wheel, shouted for aid in bringing his boat alongside. Capt. Louis Rounds, relaxing nearby, gave him a hand. The tastefully disguised young man was the Honeymooning Hero. His bride hid in the cabin below. Capt. Rounds told the story two days later and newsgatherers sped east...