Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert Hoover stuck a long black cigar between his teeth, nipped out the tails of his cutaway and sat firmly down at the black oval table in the centre of the President's room just off the Senate lobby. He was still President of the U..S. with work to do. An enormous wall mirror reflected the drawn tired lines in his face as he hunched over a stack of bills laid before him. William McKinley (in bronze) glowered out of a corner. Down through the heavy tracery of a chandelier "The Eye of God'' painted...
...fell March 4. The relay race had been won in eleven days by Japanese brigades which advanced further than from Portland. Me. to Manhattan, sprinting more than 50 mi. on each of the last three days-about as fast as any modern army can climb mountain passes in the teeth of blizzards. Day before Jehol fell, her Governor, famed War Lord Tang Yulin who received correspondents fortnight ago confidently seated on an antique Manchu Throne, seemed to be in a befuddled stupor-possibly from opium which, as Jehol's chief crop, is supposed to have made Tang a Chinese...
...island to make a nature picture. The natives seize Fay Wray, tie her up as a sacrifice to their god, King Kong. Presently the producer and his associates catch their first glimpse of King Kong. He is a gigantic whatnot resembling an ape, 50 feet tall, equipped with large teeth and a thunderous snarl. He picks up Fay Wray in one hand as though she were a frog and shuffles off through the jungle, breaking trees and grunting...
...have seen no statement indicating that the President-elect desired any dictatorial powers. . . . Should Congress undertake to confer upon him dictatorial powers, I would hope, I would expect him to fling it back in the chattering teeth of a pusillanimous Congress with the reminder that he was the President of the U. S. and not its dictator...
...match, puffed air mechanically, threw away the match, walked out unconscious that his cigar had failed to light. Cameras clicked. Cinemachines whirred. Up swept a bright limousine with the flag of the rising sun streaming from its radiator cap. Stepping in, with the cold cigar still clenched between his teeth, Japan's Matsuoka was whisked to his hotel, consoled his crestfallen staff that night with a champagne supper. His next duty, having defied the world, was to report home...