Word: stood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less relaxation than usual. He made no public comment on the speeches of Adolf Hitler at Wilhelmshaven, of Neville Chamberlain in Parliament (see p. 19), but he talked long on the telephone with his foreign relations experts both at Washington and abroad. While he vacationed his special train stood ready on a siding 70 miles from Warm Springs for a quick return to the Capital. "A source close to the President" gave out that Adolf Hitler must be plotting to extend his conquests beyond Europe into Asia, into the Americas...
...professional gamblers professed to like Dorothy Paget's Kilstar, an 8-year-old brown gelding which Miss Paget bought last year for $1,500 from a cavalry officer who could no longer afford to keep him. Kilstar stood firm at 8-1, but England's shillings rained down on H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli, which last year lost by a mere neck to Battleship. By race time the odds on Royal Danieli had been backed down from 20-1 to 10-1. A decent bet, too, but not over popular, was Merseyside-Irishman Sir Alexander Maguire...
...miss, Bowler McGeorge's pet two-finger ball socked sweetly into the 1-3. Intent on remembering the groove, Bowler McGeorge had not been watching the score. Like most bowlers, he was content to let his string of strikes run itself out before finding out where he stood. But watchful eyes among the 300 afternoon spectators in Cleveland's vast Lake Side Auditorium spotted what was going on, and the murmur and commotion aroused McGeorge to what he had worked up to. He had eleven strikes. One more meant a perfect game. In all the 39 years...
...holders of tickets on Workman in the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes drawing, it was a marvelous race indeed. All but the four who had sold half interests to soft-soaping, sixtyish Sidney Freeman (representing Douglas Stuart, Ltd., last week in Manhattan) stood to collect $141,000 each...
...dapper, delirious Catalonian placed in one window an old-fashioned bathtub lined with black Persian lamb and filled with water, from which three wax arms arose holding mirrors. Pensive before the tub stood a wax mannequin clothed in green feathers, with long, bright red hair. On the walls, upholstered in purple, small mirrors were fixed here and there, and narcissism was further indicated by narcissuses floating...