Word: worded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...diction is precious and her ankles thin. But though the world play suppliant at her feet, yet all this is as nothing if the keystone of her career has not been dropped into place. If the joyful tidings have not been shared in the corridors of Sever, if the word has not been whispered across the tables of the Reading Room, if the number two relay man has not given the news along with the baton to the number three runner, the plaudits of the world have been wasted on greatness unfulfilled. For only then can it be believed that...
Reticent Chief. No one tried harder to put the "Big Navy" plan before the country in a peaceful light than the man who had to explain it to Congress, Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes, Chief of Operations. To be on the safe side, he stuck as close as possible, almost word for word, to the statement of his predecessor, Rear Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, whose estimates of the year before had been revised only slightly since the Geneva Conference. It was characteristic of Admiral Hughes that he did not think to emphasize that point, to silence talk of "competition," that, when...
...home to Detroit. A mob of 200 unionists in the Flower Mine district (also near St. Clairsville) rambled down the highway flinging chunks of rock into non-union windows. Out of one window a shotgun blurted answer. Police locked up the shooter for safekeeping. Governor Donahey of Ohio sent word: "The law must be obeyed. If violence continues, troops will be forthcoming, no difference whether the miners or operators are to blame...
...only that, but in London British patriots began to suspect that a U. S. corporation might join the Cooks-Wagons-Lits merger. Of these possibilities Captain Cohn naturally said not a word last week. Instead he expanded on the immediate benefits of merging "Cooks' " into Wagons-Lits. With a bland contented air, Captain Cohn said...
...goodly troupe including Helen Chandler, heroine, Alan Dinehart, hero, and Clarke Silvernail, Chinese servant, they wring frightened yelps from a trembling audience. Mr. Silvernail's drolleries help to relieve tension at terror stricken moments. On the way home spectators can be heard boasting they didn't believe a word...