Word: tacking
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...girl a while back. She's married to a grocery agent now . . . funny, she should marry a drummer, huh?" The fireman's band played the tune of a bugle-call, "Soupy, soupy, soupy, without a single bean. . . ." Someone was saying: ". . . And we began to think the hard tack was turkey...
Since Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, staunch Liberal, hearty democrat, now guides the helm of the Dominion Government, there is no chance that it will be put over on such a Tory tack as that proposed by Premier Ferguson. Remained, however, for some U. S. citizens the glamorous thought that some day they may be able to obtain in Canada that other commodity denied to U. S. citizens, a peerage...
...chief "Nationalist" political henchmen, Dan Goetzee, had bolted to the Opposition, or loyalist "South African Party" of onetime (1919-24) South African Premier General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Bolter Goetzee, ever a law unto himself, added insult to injury by proclaiming that Premier Hertzog is taking the wrong tack at London by hinting at "secession" and will find his Cabinet threatened on his return to Cape Town...
...wind that struck the cylindrical metal sails created suction on their surfaces, the suction being greatest on the forward surfaces when they were rotated "into the wind" - i.e., clockwise for a starboard breeze, counterclockwise for a larboard. By proper reversals of the rotors, the ship was easily made to tack and maneuver...
...picture of the body for "X marks the spot" as merely the Daily News. But later in your reference to the Evening Journal you are careful to say the Hearst Evening Journal. Surely every one knows that the Evening Journal belongs to Hearst, but anyway, if you must tack the Hearst onto it, why not also mention the names of the gentlemen who own the Daily News? The latter would be news to more of your readers than the information that the Evening Journal belongs to Hearst. I like TIME and I work for Mr. Hearst and I want...