Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge received Mr. Lorimer been dinner instead of breakfast, a prediction by Mayor Thompson would have come true. In 1910, just prior to Mr. Lorimer's ejection from the Senate, Theodore Roosevelt refused to attend a club dinner in Chicago until an invitation to Mr. Lorimer was withdrawn. Said Mayor Thompson : "Roosevelt is riding for a fall. He will never get to the White House again. I predict that 'Billy' Lorimer will dine with a (rood Republican President in the White House. And I hope I'm there...
...yard line Ver Wiebe was suddenly withdrawn from the game. Kennard entered quickly, took the center pass without calling a string of signals, and kicked the ball squarely between the goal posts before Harvard, Yale, or the stands realized the significance of the play...
...escape nausea) kept their eyes away. They complained to Dean Deane. The student who voluntarily helped the crippled boy with his personal needs became a nervous wreck. So the dean last week wrote to Student Dwyer's father, a New York doctor, saying that the boy must be withdrawn and advising private tutors...
...Great, he went there to gain new kudos in naval warfare and to blunder about, a Scottish bull in the china shop of Russian diplomacy. Then, one day, "a girl in her early teens came to his rooms and asked for garments to mend. When the porter had withdrawn, she 'began some earnest and indecent allurements of person.' Jones, 'advised her to beware of such a career, gave her a rouble in charity, and dismissed her.' She refused to go whereupon Jones 'took her gently by the hand and led her to the door...
...Mohammedanism, to which religion the bulk of the Turkish nation belongs, prohibits intoxicating beverages. A concession to brew raki was given originally to a Polish group, but because the public complained that it was adulterated and caused blindness, and also because they refused to buy it, the concession was withdrawn. The new move is an attempt to provide the people with "pure stuff" at popular prices.- Robbers. From the gaunt heights of wild Kurdistan, a mountainous district lying partly in Turkey and partly in Iraq, a bold band of brigands swooped down upon the lowland villages, terrorizing the inhabitants. Then...