Word: withdrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment later Dr. Guerrero, cowed trifler with gentlemen's agreements, rose and in a scarcely audible voice withdrew his resolution...
...master leaped clear. Eight times this sport was repeated, on the rough, treacherous street. Then Fortuna's frenzied amigo arrived, panting, to proffer him a sword. "Too bad, my little one," cried Fortuna to the bull. "We should have met fairly in the ring. . . . So! . . . So . . . ," and he withdrew a dripping sword...
...fund which is being collected for a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, already supplied with an honorary president in Elihu Root, but rather the brain-child of Dr. W. E. Dentinger, osteopath and musico-therapeutist, who is planning a Broadway Shakespeare shrine. Mayor Walker instantly withdrew his name...
Louisiana elections are won and lost in the newspapers. When Candidate Wilson ran strongly last week, his votes feathered the cap of the New Orleans Item, edited by Marshall Ballard, "intellectual roughneck.'' When Candidate Wilson admitted defeat and withdrew, leaving Candidate Long with an enormous lead over impotent Governor Simpson and obviating a second primary, that was triumph for the New Orleans Item and The Shreveport Times, published by aristocratic Colonel Robert Ewing. Governor Simpson's trouncing by Candidate Long was a bitter trouncing for the famed New Orleans Times-Picayune...
...Said Mr. Hughes: ". . . It is the firm policy of the United States to respect the territorial integrity of the American republics. We have no policy of aggression. We do not wish their territory. ... If we had cherished an imperialistic purpose we should have remained in Santo Domingo; but we withdrew...