Word: worde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week out of the Punjab came word that the fame of Herbert Hoover has penetrated the most remote and desolate back-country of Asia. He is there regarded as "a giant who feeds all people...
...last week delivered to the House a ponderous Bill to revise the tariff for the benefit of the farmer?and others. Farmers, through their Congressional representatives, surveyed the measure suspiciously, expressed strong disappointment, began to kick dirt. Great was their surprise when other interests affected by this 85,000-word measure were, for different reasons, no more pleased than they...
...Lloyd George seems unduly hurt," said Chancellor Churchill, "because I advise the electors not to be taken in by quackery, charlatanism and thimble-rigging.* I am always anxious not to irritate people unnecessarily, so I hereby announce that I will, for the future, in this election, drop the word charlatan and use instead the word 'cheapjack' as applied to Lloyd George's scheme...
...Joseph J. Eller and two assistants descended from a taxicab at the Post Graduate Hospital. A few minutes later they discovered that a small black satchel containing 500 milligrams ($30,000 worth) of radium had been left in the cab, each man having thought that another had it. Word was sent to all the newspapers warning the finder to ware burning himself. Next morning a restaurateur a few blocks from the hospital reported discovering the bag under a table in his restaurant. Its intervening experiences were unknown...
...works laboriously all day, shoots facile pool far into the night. Tall and slender, he has the drooped shoulders of the scholar. Shy, quiet, secretive, he has a brilliant occasional smile. Accused of an obscurity as great as Browning's he murmurs: "Why can't they read one word after another...