Word: simmering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before his son (1909-11). But Committeeman Howard's Hamilton Fish commanded Negro troops in the War. He likes Negroes and they like him. "His nomination is logical," said Committeeman Howard. "There are ten states . . . etc." Other G. O. Politicians put the Fish idea aside and let it simmer...
Celebrities follow bright rainbows to pots of shining gold. The U. S. pot is most golden. Therefore choicest celebrities from overseas swarm into it, simmer, exude the essences of genius. Last week the pot seemed brimming full. Choice dumplings were...
...Extract the brains from the public, pickle them, put them in the Natural History Museum with a strong infusion of monkey gland, stir hard and let simmer for 100 years. Something may emerge from the mixture...
Prisoner Debs read it slowly, eagerly, ravenously. The book was Karl Marx's Das Kapital. In the brain of Prisoner Debs there began to simmer a more militant type of Socialism for the U. S. than the mere reading of Utopian books...
...seems to simmer down to the fact that in present-day college athletics and in football particularly, the winning of victories has become more of a business than a sport. The detail in management; the minuteness of coaching necessary to the success of an eleven; the sometimes exaggerated publicity; secret practice, and the huge crowds attending the late season games have encroached on the old-time aim of college sport, which was the development of the undergraduate. The pendulum seems to have swung about as far that way as it will go. It is to be hoped that the swing...