Word: stream
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Root, then Secretary of State, saying: "By order of the Secretary of War, Sergeant Stimson will report at once, in person, to the President of the United States." On the other side of Rock Creek he saw Secretary Root and President Roosevelt. Plunging into the rain-swollen, swift-flowing stream, he urged his horse across, arrived wet, triumphant. His summons was merely a Rooseveltian method of inviting him to the White House for dinner. Later in the year (1906) Roosevelt, looking for a U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, remembered the stream-crosser, appointed Henry Lewis...
...onetime Sergeant Stimson crosses another stream at the invitation of another U. S. President. This time it is the Gulf Stream, for last week Mr. Stimson packed his grip and left Manhattan for Nicaragua, where he travels as special representative of President Coolidge. He may interview among others Revolutionary Leader Sacasa; after a month will return to make reports, recommendations. Republicans hope that, through his intervention, the marines may be withdrawn from Nicaragua before their presence can be made an issue in the 1928 presidential campaign...
...squad last Saturday, Crew Y was declared winner over Crew X, in one of the closest races held this year on the Charles. The Crews were chosen by Coach Brown with especial emphasis on making them virtually equal in power. At the end of the up-stream ten minute race, Crew Y was a quarter length ahead of Crew...
...voices flow, never tiresome, liquid, direct, humorous, full of "yunnuh" (you), "enty" (isn't that so?), 'sho'," "Jedus." A three-dimensional talking cinema could reproduce folk-life no more fully nor could any director efface himself as completely as Mrs. Peterkin to let a rich stream of life take its own way through playful eddies and deep pools. Black April is a full size product, as authentic as a bumper cotton crop. The Author. Her birthday was Halloween, 1880. Her mother died and she was reared by an oldtime Negro "mauma." Her name, Julia Mood, was near...
...thing or even one group of things," he continued, "for all their inaccurate perspective and narrowness, are not only typical of youth but also serve a very definite purpose in life. They concentrate all their energies on one point. It is like bringing the waters of a wide stream together in a narrow channel where it will flow faster Vividness, emotion, intensity, these are all products of concentration on a single point. When we survey things from a distance in a more nearly proper perspective, we find it harder to be moved...