Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Mills who sped to the Mayflower to deliver it to Governor Roosevelt. The President-elect was just leaving for the station to continue his journey to Georgia. Promising an answer later he hurriedly summoned Bernard Mannes Baruch, Democracy's supreme financial adviser, asked him to ride part way South with him to discuss the President's statement. Mr. Baruch consented and as the Roosevelt private car rolled down through Virginia a conference of high state was held in the observation parlor. Besides Mr. Baruch, Governor Roosevelt had the assistance of Professor Moley. William H. Woodin (American...
...afraid of assassination was Comrade Trotsky (né Bronstein) that he left his train "white-faced" (according to Hearst-men) before it reached Copenhagen and sped by motor car to an unrevealed hiding place in the Capital...
...genteel body of the Corporation, leaving a fine white trail of Union cigar ashes behind it, had reached the downward path that leads to the front of Widener. Nothing unusual in that, but it did look as though there was to be a traffic congestion. Straight as two arrows sped the eagerly pressing riders, straight into the center of the dignity of Harvard's elder statesmen...
With the solemn blessings of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London bestowed upon it, and a happy crowd to cheer its going, a trim white ship sped down the Thames and out to sea last July. It was the Southern Cross , VI, a 220-ton, 150-ft. motorship. latest and prettiest of a succession of Church of England vessels carrying the gospel to faraway isles...
...Benson, N. Y., Walter D. Canfield, 80, saw a deer, intently aimed, fired, fell dead as his bullet sped neatly into and killed the deer...