Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortnight ago when Mr. Roosevelt returned from Warm Springs and Mr. Garner returned from Uvalde, with a new tan sombrero, terming himself "just a country boy trying to get along with the city slickers." Promptly they put their heads together, decided it was politically too dangerous to try to spike Mr. Byrns's ambitions. So Mr. Garner emerged from the White House and slyly told reporters in answer to questions...
...Harvard ushers are Edward E. Calvin, '35, James M. Estabrook, 1L, John G. Hurd, 1L, Dantel W. Litscher, 7G, Robert S. Playfair, '36, John E. Rogerson, 1L, Armistead B. Rood, 1L, and Theodore Spike...
Liberty's "intimate revelations" were written by Frazier ("Spike") Hunt, old-time journalist and War correspondent. He owns a ranch in Western Alberta near the Prince's ranch, proudly boasts that he and H. R. H. are "good neighbors...
...that job he kept on loudly fighting the League's battles against sweatshops and exploitation of women & children, for old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation. Nor is he the kind of antagonist who makes opponents love him in spite of honest differences. Chunky and spike-haired, he prides himself on speaking his mind anywhere about anything. When he gets on the subject of "invisible government" his thin, sarcastic voice grows shrill with rage. But he is a good teacher. Two years ago Pitt seniors voted him their most popular professor. If anyone still doubted that...
When in May 1869, on a bare shoulder of Utah the late great Leland Stanford swung a silver maul at a golden spike (which he missed), history was made. The fire bell in Sacramento rolled to the rope. The first of 220 cannon shots was fired on Fort Hill, San Francisco. A two-mile parade stumbled into step in Omaha. Decorations blazed from the wooden lamp posts of Chicago. The chimes-master of Trinity Church at the head of Wall Street in New York played "Old Hundred" on his clanking choir, and President U. S. Grant received a telegram reading...