Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first step to be taken was the arrest of the four brothers Barmat. Preliminary investigations showed that wholesale corruption involving several prominent Socialists had been practiced. Monarchist guns barked their medley of jubilation. The Lokal Anziger printed a letter which clearly revealed the painful fact that ex-Chancellor Bauer had accepted money from the Barmats. The Socialist Party forced Bauer to resign from the Reichstag?but nothing it could do could temper the cracking shrapnel that spat its hate on every side. Dr. Anton Hofle, ex-Minister of Ports, resigned temporarily from the Reichstag and his trial was rumored...
Should such a step be deemed desirable, any legal action that may be necessary to that end will be more readily obtainable if the favorable attitude thereto of contributors has been registered. Therefore, in making my pledge of $500,000 to this great enterprise, I am venturing to add this clause...
...well that other subscribers to this fund who are not members of the Episcopal Church and possibly some who are would be glad of an opportunity to register their approval of this further step toward Christian unity by signing such an expression...
...first game of the season.* His opponent, he knew, was a dangerous player. He manned himself for his task, halved the first hole, won the next. So the match seesawed. Mr. Baker hit the hardest; sometimes, indeed, the natural recoil of his flourish forced him to stagger back a step or two. Mr. Rockefeller was warier; he never waggled, but bent for a moment over his club in the attitude of one who offers prayer, then struck. As they approached the eighth hole, the wearer of the cotton gloves was one up. Mr. Baker's ball dropped ten feet...
...Step. It is not impossible that this play, shorn of about 20 character, focussed to pick out the lights and shadows, and rewritten with a feeling for the jazz dialect, might be a pert and serviceable entertainment. In its present form, it is diffuse, dreary...