Word: sped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman of the Second Dawes Committee (see International); Aristide Briand, the cello-voiced, bushy-eyebrowed Foreign Minister of France; and Mr. John Ridgely Carter, Paris Morgan Partner, representing J. Pierpont Morgan. Although suffering from a heavy cold, Mr. Morgan at the last moment disregarded the advice of physicians and sped by motor to attend the simple service held for Mr. Herrick at the Paris Pro-Cathedral. That edifice is capable of holding less than 1,000, and an appalling crush ensued...
Because the coffin was going to be conveyed from Brest to Manhattan on the French cruiser Tourville, and because women are positively not allowed on French warships, Mrs. Parmely Herrick sped by a different route to Cherbourg, caught the Aquitania...
Tycoons. While the Bellhops hopped, the major figures of the U.S. delegation pursued more august courses. J. Pierpont Morgan spent part of the week with Parisian vendors of nearly priceless medieval illuminated manuscripts. Tycoons Owen D. Young and his alternate, Thomas Nelson Perkins, sped out to Cherbourg to meet the Olympic and their wives. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament kept up their round of smart dinners, many with artists and litterateurs of the left bank...
...Sped six years. The new Prime Minister was that savage atheist M. Georges Clemenceau, well called "The Tiger." One day Catholic Foch was bidden to luncheon by Atheist Clemenceau. They merely chatted until the General reached the point of raising and sipping his demitasse, when The Tiger suddenly flashed, "You are the new Director of the War College! I have just signed your appointment...
...Chiswick Church, which marks two miles, Stroke Brocklebank had geared his men to 29 strokes to the minute and they had increased their lead to two lengths. On and on−past Duke's Meadows, Barnes Bridge, Mortlake Brewery and finally to the finish line the Cantabs sped with steady rhythm. They finished seven boat-lengths in the lead, rowing the four miles...