Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made public by General John H. Sherburne of Brookline, Mass., one of Manufacturer Leach's competitors for the nomination. General Sherburne cried out about "a scandal which would be comparable with the scandals in Illinois and Pennsylvania. . . . In a year when our supreme effort is being directed toward the carrying of Massachusetts for Herbert Hoover by an emphatic majority, we can ill afford a repetition of the Vare or Smith disgraces...
...recognize in the [Kellogg] pact lack of any obligations for disarmament, which are the only genuine guarantee of peace; the insufficiency and indefiniteness of the formula itself for the prohibition of war; and the existence of several reservations having the object to suspend in advance even appearance of obligations toward the cause of peace...
...same roof that sheltered Wills when she was born; their first names are the same, they are California tennis misses. But in trading drives from the baseline neither Jacobs nor any other woman has the ability of Wills. Valiantly but with many an error Jacobs sped the ball toward her opponent's backcourt boundary, thereby failed to win from Wills the national women's singles championship. After the match Wills rested in the Forest Hills, L. I., clubhouse, resumed play. Paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, she won the doubles title against Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper & Miss Edith...
...snake crawl out from behind some furniture in my room. My cries brought the elders, and they assured me that this appearance of a serpent was a good omen-that it meant I would become strong and great. For a time, in my ignorance, I had a worshipful attitude toward snakes...
Percy Hammond, dramatic critic of the New York Herald Tribune, wrote last week a brusque review of He Understood Women (see THEATRE). Then, late in the night, he got quickly into a waiting automobile, driven by his wife, and set off for the country. A car came up toward Percy Hammond at a great rate of speed, hit his auto and turned it over, causing bruises to Mrs. Hammond and more serious injuries to her husband, so that it would be necessary for him to carry his write arm in a sling. The driver of the car was an obscure...