Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate remained deaf to the President. Last week, finally, it passed (68 to 12) the cruiser-building bill with the three-year time-limit. The House shouted its approval. The bill went to the White House, whence it was brusquely despatched to the Navy Department to be thoroughly, but perfunctorily, combed for possible further objections...
...potent bandit-catcher-1st Lieut. Herman Henry Hanneken, a blocky, clean-faced young native of St. Louis, Mo. Lieutenant Hanneken had arrived in Nicaragua just after Christmas, detailed to the nth Regiment in the Department of Jinotega. There coffee planters told terrifying tales of Jiron and his raids. Hanneken went out into the wilds and, in his own mysterious way, returned with Jiron, handed him over to the Nicaraguan officials...
...door. A well-dressed white woman stepped out. She said she was interested in oil and asked him to go for a ride. It was getting dark; he did not want to go. But he was a good-natured Indian who could not say no. He grinned and went. They drove to Okemeh, 18 miles away, and there spent the night. She was not a bad looking white woman...
...Oklahoma, where political parties are constantly split and where Rosicrudan philosophy (founded 1313) is still a topic of conversation, Governor-Suspend Henry Simpson Johnston went on trial, last week, before the State Senate, sitting as a court on eleven articles of impeachment...
...title whereas The Doctor's Secret runs for 60 minutes. The story of the woman who lives through that half-hour-30 minutes from the time she leaves her husband to run away with another man, until, her sweetheart having been killed in a street accident when he went out to get a taxi to take them to the station, she is back as hostess in her husband's house-could not possibly be told so well without the sound device. For once, the voices, in spite of still imperfect reproduction, give life to the characterizations...