Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mistrial, ruefully admitted that the attempt to prosecute the case at Shelbyville was "a mistake." Guardsmen wrapped puttees around Negro Harris' trembling legs, clapped a gas mask over his black face, covered his shabby sweater with a militia greatcoat, rushed him out to an automobile. Determined officers sped the blackamoor to Nashville and safety. Their job done, the troops marched out to the edge of Shelbyville and pitched camp...
...eyed President Albert Lebrun sped her away from "home" (Paris) in his private car, with a French gendarme stiff at attention every kilometer all the way to Calais...
When every Madrid newspaper of consequence denounced the Commission as an "affront to Spain," French Commissioner Bourthomieux discreetly took the first train for Paris. The Britons and the Czech stuck, to be jeered by hoodlums in the streets. Armed with a letter from Premier Lerroux, they sped to Asturias, the "Atrocities Province," presented their credentials at Oviedo to Major Doval, the Military Acting Governor. "Certainly, my Lord and Miss Wilkinson," beamed the Major, "it will be a pleasure...
...Manville, N. J., boisterous wedding guests pelted Joseph Lojka & bride with rice, knocked Joseph Lojka out with a well-aimed 5-lb. bag, revived him, sped him on his honeymoon...
Last week, after another week's delay caused by storms, the two flyers left Honolulu, sped swiftly to the U. S. on the wings of a brisk tailwind. They reached Oakland in less than 15 hours, two hours ahead of schedule. Kingsford-Smith poked his grease-smudged face out of the cockpit and grinned: "I'm sorry to be so early. . . . I've got the best airplane in the world...