Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baldwin Soothing. Since the debate was waxing toward midnight, Premier Stanley Baldwin arose to turn on the Government's Conservative steam roller in defense of Sir Austen. Humorously he twitted Mr. George with "clothing himself in an air of lachrymosity" and basing his accusations upon "necromantic divinations of conversations which never occurred" (i.e., between Briand and Chamberlain). Finally he spread soothing words as with a trowel; implied that the League was none the worse for its "manifestation of human nature not wholly of a happy kind...
...Irish Republic." When the Irish Free State Agreement was negotiated in 1920, however, he conspicuously held aloof from the representatives of "We Ourselves," who were treated with successfully by Great Britain. From that hour De Valera's prestige began to ooze into a misty nothingness, like the steam from Boland's Bakery...
...King smiled amusedly at this bombast. After a short visit to Prince Albert, he returned to Ottawa and allowed the Liberal steam roller in Saskatchewan to obliterate doughty Captain Burgess, M. C., six ballots...
Snow Melter. At Long Island City, a steam roller rumbled and puffed through the snowy streets. But it was a new kind of steam roller. Its front looked more like a big boiler, which did not weigh heavily on the ground but pressed against it, sending aloft clouds of fleecy steam. Beneath it ran rivulets of slush. Behind it lay a street cleared of its matted snow. It was a snow melter, invented by John B. Lodge of Beacon, N. Y. The steam drum could be heated to 2,000 Fahrenheit by crude oil under compression burned within...
...seemed a shame to hamper the abilities of Marie Prevost with a slap-stick story and a crazy continuity. In her own particular field, which is domestic farce, Miss Prevost is without a superior. But what price pug-nose and winsome and sophisticated smile in a steam launch beset by gangsters? Mr. Kenneth Harlan, her out-of-movie husband, saw her through most solicitously. Otherwise she was in very bad company...