Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strong, LL.B. '90, A.M. (hon.) '22 spoke of the graduate's unpaid debt to the Law School, laying stress on the fact that the training a man receives at the Harvard Law School is worth many times what it costs...
...Spoke one of the General's companions: "We just wanted a couple. This is General Pershing with...
...single suitcase proved ample baggage. Indeed, I could have done with less." Thus, jauntily spoke Lady Hoare, wife of Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare, as she landed at Delhi, the Capital of India, last week, after flying from London in eleven days. There were 63 hours' actual flying time...
Half the people in Chicago were jammed on the sidewalk in front of the People's Gas Building. Upstairs, in the office of the baseball commission, Charles ("Swede") Risberg, banned shortstop, told how Detroit threw a series of games to the Chicago White Sox in 1917. He spoke for an hour and five minutes, repeating, in front of the 29 famed players he accused of giving and taking bribes, the charges he had already expressed to Judge Landis. The baseball commissioner listened with a foxlike expression. He had on a wing collar and he chewed a derelict cigar. Sometimes...
...Root, aged 81, spoke to rebuke the U. S. for deserting the League of Nations. Said he: "We have allowed insensate prejudice, camouflaged by futile phrases, to appear, but falsely appear, to represent the true heart of the American people, with all its idealism, with its breadth of human sympathy, with its strong desire that our country should do its share for peace and happiness and noble life in all the world...