Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clustered close drew the three comrades, with Death at their elbows, and as the oldest rose totteringly he spoke in a voice audible only for a few feet. Peter Hall, 88, whispered faintly: "We are getting older, and our ailments increasing, and feebleness and weakness make it difficult ... to meet much longer. . . ." He proposed a "last three club" or a "last two club...
...spoke Lincoln Ellsworth, sturdy comrade and financial backer of Explorer Roald Amundsen: "General Nobile . . . was retained at a salary to act as her [the Norge's] captain, in exactly the same capacity as the captain of any other ship. ... It would be extremely unfair to [Lieut.] Riiser-Larsen, who navigated the entire flight across the Polar Sea, and to [Lieuts.] Horgan and Wisting who operated the lateral and vertical controls, not to give credit for both the navigating and the steering where...
Strict Sabbatarians are determined to make this Sesquicentennial Sunday closing an issue which may have greater repercussions throughout the country than the Fundamentalist-Modernist row. Sabbath Associations last week sent representatives to Harrisburg, Pa., the state capital. These gentlemen spoke so intimately, so forcibly, to State Attorney General George Washington Woodruff, that he changed his mind from its former course, and immediately instituted quo warranto proceedings against the Sesquicentennial management...
Filipinos. Oracle Thompson was an interesting exhibit before the joint opening session of Filipino Senate and House. He was applauded half-heartedly (Governor General Leonard Wood was not applauded at all); he spoke of "public lands . . . rubber . . . righteousness . . . loyalty;" he heard a unanimous resolution, agreed upon by both Houses, informing President Coolidge of the intense desire of the Filipinos for immediate, complete, absolute independence. Colonel Thompson had another entry for his notebook, along with the item that the night before he had drunk champagne to Mr. Coolidge's health at the proposal of Manuel Quezon, president of the Senate...
...fields of grain in fat Czecho-Slovakia and lower Hungary continued to be inundated and swept away during a fourth week of natural catastrophe (TIME, July 19, INTERNATIONAL). Farmers pled piteously with their governments to "do something." Peasants cursed and blamed the ill-omened new radio stations. Governments lamented, spoke dolefully of sunspots as the cause of disastrous weather. Afflicted mankind was miserable...