Word: detained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delight. Short, stocky, vital, with none of the manners of the British Isles, and plenty of the breeziness of the Middle West, he shows you his books with pride and talks of his work with high seriousness. I just managed to catch hold of his coattails and detain him for a few moments. This respite was doubtless between the writing of a syndicate poem and the sending out of a radio broadcast. He then took me for a ride in the Ford car which was presented to him by the great manufacturer himself. Riding with Eddie Guest in Detroit...
...used to the orderly conduct of the hospital ward to have the patient, quietly opiated and under the surveillance of the most illustrious physicians, suddenly jump up, ram his medicine down the doctor's throat and escape, in spite of the organized efforts of the strong-arm squad to detain...
...brunt. And after it is over, she will again be thanked and called imperialistic. If intervention does not come, we may all have the pleasure of seeing the restoration of his Imperial Majesty, buried alive since the autumn of 1918 and in a forlorn spot where "wicked men detain...