Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...say?as British Minister* when the World War broke out?that if all the churches in Christendom had said in 1914, 'Halt. This murder must not begin,' not a monarch nor minister in Christendom would have dared start...
Telegram. From Baden Baden, famed spa, a sick man telegraphed to break the deadlock. His signature read simply "Stresemann." The great Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner wired: "From the start I have regarded skeptically the attempt to establish a Ministry on the basis of a program approved beforehand by the various parties." He continued that, although it seemed "psychologically scarcely possible" for Herr Muller to forge a majority pledged to support him, he might carry on with a "Cabinet of Personages," that is to say, a government composed of distinguished party men whose parties would probably support them...
...stand beside the bleached, hot field. The stranger was Con- nery, scout for the St. Louis Cardinals; oilers had told Connery that there was a good player in Dennison. Connery paid $500 for Hornsby's release and handed him a ticket to St. Louis. Many ballplayers get their start much the same way; many of them show up again in their home towns after a few months with nothing to show for their trip except a new suit and a phrase, "When I was in the big leagues. . . ." But though Hornsby's beginning was a stencil his career...
...secured the services of Andrew Jackson ("Bossy") Gillis, famed Mayor of Newburyport, Mass., who, after making a speech, fired his pistol three times into the air thus causing 132 teams to begin their exertions. A crowd of scornful reporters and a handful of spectators were present at the start...
...energetic promotions of Milton D. Crandall led naturally to many imitations. By the time of his most spectacular achievement last week, dance marathons were booming all over the U. S. Promoter Crandall himself intended to start others, under slightly more stringent rules, in Buffalo, Paterson, Scranton and Harrisburg, as well as in London, Berlin and Paris, with the assistance of "Cold Cash" Pyle. Of last week's endurance fiestas, the most successful, from a mercenary standpoint, was one in Chicago with which Mr. Crandall had been invited to associate but which his Madison Square engagement antedated. Another contemporary ball...