Word: split
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pelican turned out to be a long evening of talk concerning the duty of mothers to children. The mother split from her husband in her youth, had a child, and everybody did his or her duty by the offspring at the last. The concentrated philosophies and sacrifice of this last act compelled the spectator's interest. A program note quoted an old legend to the effect that the mother pelican draws blood from her own breast to feed her young...
About that time a number of Republicans attempted to oust him from his political power in Georgia in order to set up a Lily White Republican organization there. They failed. They made trouble for him and split the state organization into fragments. But Mr. Johnson stayed...
When a U. S. President enters the White House, Father Time knows where to find him for the next four years and generally hies himself to Paris, there to split seconds as the Premiers fall. In Canada matters of state are ordered betwixt these extremes. The Parliament must be re-elected every five years, and may be dissolved and re-elected at any time upon the fiat of the Governor General. The Governor General, like King George, generally gives ear to the reigning Premier in such matters. And he in turn responds by custom to any very marked indications that...
...daughter, at the request of cinema photographers and before the marveling gaze of 4,000 yokels admitted at 25 cents each, stood up on the wing of an airplane, leaped into space, curved down 40 feet to cleave the waters of the city lake. The force of the impact split her bathing...
...orchestra tinkled dreamily in the empty ballroom of the Hotel Waldorf, Manhattan. Empty? But no. For some 25 four-footed creatures glided over its glazed parquetry. The music stopped, the 25 four-footed creatures split apart, after the fashion of multiplying atoms, into 50 two-footed creatures. They were dancing masters of the U. S. gathered for their annual convention. Professor Philip N. Nutt, of Vineland, N. J., (in velvet plus-fours and silk stockings) waved his hand. The music began again...