Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Good, though 63 years old, emerged favorably from the anesthetic. He gave his wife lucid instructions about pressing War Department business. From his bedside went incessant reports to the White House. Two days after the operation he began to sink. At night President Hoover went to the hospital sickroom. "How are you, my dear friend?" he said. The Secretary mumbled feebly, inaudibly, tried to express appreciation, slumped back unconscious...
Detectives pondered the clues. The marauders' organized precision reminded crime-wise officials of the methods of James Nannery, "Bronx Badman." When some of the witnesses identified his picture in the rogues' gallery, imperative orders went out for his capture, dead or alive...
...tall corn of Paul Renz's fields, outside Platte City, Mo., grows 80 bushels an acre, even in a dry year. Thousands of people from tall corn states went out to Renz's last week, parked their cars, climbed for places on the crook of low hills?a sort of natural balcony?around one field. At noon 13 wagons drove past the crowd. Beside the driver in each wagon sat the finalists in the U. S. cornhusking championship, all of them famous huskers, winners of sectional tournaments. They were young fellows in old work-clothes. Each husker had one bare...
...right weather for husking is cold and clear?the husks, brittle then, break easily. At Renz's the air was warm and the ground muddy, but the wagons went fast. A good husker never looks at his wagon. He trains his team to move the way he husks, stand a pace, step a pace, to the rattle of the ears on the bangboard. White corn, yellow corn. 45 ears a minute thumping into the wagon. . . . An ordinary workman could not pick it up as fast as that even if it were husked. Red corn. . . . At a husking bee when...
...extreme with correspondents, he had earned their ire. He would not even give out the text of the Statutes, forced them to get it from Germany's offish Schacht, usually the closest oyster at any conference. Perhaps in irritation the newshawks made little of the fact that Mr. Reynolds went straight from Baden-Baden to Paris for a conference with representatives of the House of Morgan. The reporters favored instead as prospective chairman Chicago's drawling "Mel" Traylor...