Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest of us hope that TIME will mercifully refrain from forming its style on Mr. Hammond Jr.'s model? We might stand for the canned music department, but not for the other...
...Senator Simmons. Editorials appeared. Letters went around. Finally, the Senate investigators turned up, instead of a lot of Smith money, a lot of rebellious sentiment against the Simmons rule. Therefore, last week, in a whispery voice, Senator Simmons began a long, long speech which was as much the last stand of a local patriarch as it was the last stand of Tradition v. Tammany...
...private and public. Shy to a painful degree, Mr. Mellon is nevertheless noted for his courage. His integrity, of course, is beyond question. Memorable illustrations of these two qualities were the swift ejection from the Treasury in 1922 of Elmer Dover, Ohio Gangster, and Secretary MelIon's long stand-up fights on the Internal Revenue Bureau with hard-hitting Senator Couzens of Michigan...
...soldiers always flank the door of a certain large but unpretentious mansion on the famed Wilhelmstrasse. Changed every few hours, they stand while on duty absolutely motionless, eyes front, shouldering heavy service rifles which are never seen to move, to tremble. Early one morning last week these soldier automatons turned suddenly as though on pivots, snapped to salute, and again became motionless as President Paul von Hindenburg, 81, strode forth with a Feldmarschall's tread, passed down the Wilhelmstrasse into the Taubenstrasse and entered a reeking, beery saloon...
Misstep was leading. The first time the field passed the stand Reigh Count was in the little group that had been forced to the front. At the eighth pole Misstep still led the wafting line of color moving through the grey air opposite the stands. In her box Mrs. John Hertz of Chicago, owner of Reigh Count, stood with the tears running down her face watching the yellow shirt of her jockey, Chick Lang. As the horses moved into the turn Reigh Count swung out wide around Misstep, then pulled away to win. Toro was third and the rest...