Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going out upon tide. All listening. Sound water signals as voice good...
Hiram Johnson. The Senator from California stood like another Canute, saying to the Coolidge tide: "Go back, go back!" Perhaps he is a greater king than Canute, but the political world did not think so. He circulated in Illinois, asking voters: "To whom are the defeated farmers of the West to look...
...Coates has been, for nearly a year, director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, affiliated with the Eastman School of Music. In dedicating his suite to George Eastman, Mr. Coates was doubtless conscious of something more than personal tribute. He was, in fact, paying tribute to the rising tide of music throughout...
...like Foch at the Marne, standing immobile against the battering thrusts of fate. Apparently up to the climacteric point he has done nothing but shake his head like a lazy, shaggy lion, tossing the blows from him. And then like Foch he charges and turns the tide completely...
...knout and bastinado. In the voting on the tax reduction bill in the House, the Democrats succeeded in substituting the Garner surtax rates for those of the Mellon plan. Later the Garner rates were stricken out (when the Republican insurgents went back to their party), but at the high tide of Democratic success, Whip Oldfield assembled on the floor all but three Democratic members. One was at a funeral. Two were lying at the point of death...