Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed Eamonn de Valera and Miss Mary MacSwiney to join forces and enter the Dail. This they have refused to do, alleging their unwillingness to take the oath of fealty to George V, required of every deputy before he can legally take his seat. At present Mr. De Valera stands at the head of 44 Fianna Fail or "Republican" deputies; and Miss MacSwiney is one of six deputies comprising the much blighted and withered Sinn Fein party to which De Valera formerly belonged. Thus, these 50 deputies if they should stand together, would outnumber the 46 supporters of Mr. Cosgrave...
...land: "Here comes the guard of honor ahead of Lindbergh's car. . . . The cavalrymen with drawn sabres make a dashing picture. . . . Here's the boy. . . . He comes forward unassuming, quiet, a little stoop in his shoulders. . . . Now I will turn the microphone to the reviewing stand, where President Coolidge and the boy Lindbergh stand quietly together...
...Catholic Church. For his passing over into the Methodist Church neither his relatives nor Oberammergau can be held responsible. Acting as a good Catholic, my son [Anton], who at present is studying at Holy Cross College, in Worcester, Massachusetts [see p. 18], has already in various papers taken a stand against this Propaganda -Methodism. In fact Otto Lang has complained to me about it [Anton II's cousinly denunciation...
...Magistrate William McAdoo last fortnight deplored the presence of 17,000 cabs, most of them plying night and day in the congested runways of an island only 12½by12½ miles. Competition between the 17,000 is so great that, in Mr. McAdoo's words, "You can stand on any corner and count the number of taxicabs in proportion to other vehicles and two-thirds of them are taxicabs, cruising, cruising, empty, empty, everywhere...
...head of a family whose contributions to general education lead all the rest that there is an end to all good things. He foresees a day, much too imminent, when gifts of the present scale will be exceptional and the universities and privately endowed colleges will have to stand on their own feet...