Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From April to October each year Sandburg made no engagements; he sat at his cracker box and wrestled with a bigger job than any army commander ever faced. Fifty years old when he started it, he could summon to his aid a lifetime of singularly useful experience: as a shock-headed Swedish kid in Galesburg, Ill. in the '80s (his father was an immigrant blacksmith) listening to talk of Lincoln and the Civil War; as a harvest hand, a migrant worker, a volunteer in the Spanish-American War; as a young reporter in Milwaukee and Chicago getting ten years...
...until the last player has left, not until the last towel has been picked up, can these five let up. At last the "zero hour" will have arrived. According to tradition, John Atherton '40 will then summon them into the Jayvee Coaches room...
Politicians asked each other in whispers whether Bigelow could summon up enough referendum votes to make him a prospective candidate for Governor. Said his campaign director, Charles H. Hubbell: "The amendments will be approved at the polls and then the people of Ohio will elect as their Governor the man who conceived them...
...Putting the world on notice that, if war should break while he was gone, he would instantly summon Congress into special session to revise Neutrality, Franklin Roosevelt left Hyde Park, went down to the sea in the cruiser Tuscaloosa. He rounded Cape Cod, radioed "Well done" to the Squalus salvagers who last week dragged the sunken submarine two miles toward shore until it stuck in an uncharted mud lump. The President proceeded to his mother's place at Campobello Island where, 18 years ago, a ducking in the icy water was followed by the infantile paralysis attack which crippled...
...declared. Their Majesties will march once, perhaps twice from the Embassy's portico to the end of the long lawn & back. Guests should fall back, make a wide lane, not only out of respect but so that all may see. Members of Their Majesties' entourage will summon distinguished guests whom Their Majesties wish to have presented. In case of rain, two large khaki tents will be provided. Tea will be served under smaller marquees. The hard drink bar will be around a corner, out of sight. Guests must remain until Their Majesties withdraw. Then "the garden gates will...