Word: swap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tammany Democrats who are so fond of referring to Mr. Smith as another Lincoln should remember that Lincoln said, 'Never swap horses while crossing the stream...
...Swap generals with us and we'll lick the hell out of you." In this threat, shouted across trenches by boys in Blue to boys in Gray, lies perhaps the greatest tribute to General Robert Edward Lee of Virginia, the soldier who retreated his way to the forefront of military history...
...field day," a shindig, the kind Denver loves. People scratched their heads to think up things they wanted or did not want. One man offered voice lessons for a tombstone. One wanted to swap a steamer trunk for a suitcase and grip. One wrote: "Will decorate your home as first payment on used car." Another: "Canary, fine singer; sell for $5." Police had to regulate the queues of would-be advertisers. Thirsty automobiles jammed the publishing districts...
...afternoon in Constitution Square. At eve he sought the new Dictator-with and against whom he has plotted many times-presented a petition signed by many a rabble scrawl demanding the formation of a Coalition Cabinet. This demand, already fructifying in other brains, led to a congress of chop, swap and barter between a spoil-ravenous group of military and naval adventurers and numerous former Premiers (Kafandaris, Papanastasion, Michalakopoulos, etc.). For a time anarchy loomed. Eventually General Kondylis, mixing bluster with serpentine intrigue was able to form what he called "a business cabinet." The "recalled" President of the Hellenic Republic...
...swap of the sweeping swipe...