Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flagpole sitting craze for children. One "Azey" Foreman, 14, claimed a junior championship with a record of 10 days, 10 hr., 10 min., 10 sec. Soon rivals appeared. In a few days, 21 poles bore young perchers, applauded, tended, pointed out by ambitious parents. Unambitious parents had to watch their young to keep them from sneaking up telephone poles. Developments were rapid...
...front of his official headquarters?tales of recent Toledo crimes?to remind Toledo voters that Potentate Brown's candidate for reelection, Mayor William T. Jackson, had promised a crime cleanup, had not succeeded. The prize clipping related how the Brown Chief of Police had paid $7 to recover his watch from a pawnshop, whither it had been brought by a thief who had sneaked it from the room in which its owner was sleeping; also how the Brown Chief never did get back the trousers which held the watch which was in the room in which he was sleeping...
...More on parade than the parading Scouts last week were Bigwigs who came complacently to watch. Birthday greetings were pronounced by the Duke of Connaught, who was, Scouts had been told, uncle to King George V. English Scouts soon forgot their recent jibes of "millionaires" when Mortimer L. Schiff (Kuhn Loeb & Co.), U. S. Scout vice president, presented a $50,000 check to them, "for the advancement of the British Scout movement...
...Business Man's Plan for Settling the War in Europe," developed in 1915. The nations ignored it. But some of his suggestions have grown into the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War proclaimed at the White House last week. However the civilian honored by invitation to watch the ceremony was not Charles L. Bernheimer. but Salmon Oliver Levinson, also a Jew, who has developed similar thoughts more strongly, more largely (TIME...
...rural Raritan, N. J., last week a Mrs. Joseph Bonini cuddled her child, six weeks. The infant gummed at her wrist watch. The watch slipped loose and into the baby's throat. The baby choked. Came rushing two policemen with a motorcycle and sidecar. Away they rushed over rough roads to a hospital, one in the sidecar holding the child. The motorcycle wiggled; the sidecar lurched; the policeman bounced; the baby shook; and the watch jiggled out of its throat. All was well...