Word: fetch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American-Scandinavian Foundation ($2.00). In roaring, lynching, razzle-dazzle, hell-for-leather '49, when men went mad for gold in California, when Longfellow wrote poetry in Cambridge and carpenters got 16 dollars a day; when Choctaw Indians came to Christ and dying John Calhoun, his eyes like fetch candles, stood up to speak in the U. S. Senate, there came to these shores a middle-aged Swedish spinster who had written novels. Her friend Hawthorne said that she was worthy of being the maiden aunt of the whole human race; at all events her name, Frederika Bremer, forgotten...
...lords hold sway. Their Majesties retired to don the royal robes of state, after which they were conducted to the throne in dignified silence, surrounded on every side by berobed and beermined dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons and their bejeweled consorts.* Meantime, Black Rod? had been sent to fetch His Majesty's faithful Commons and in due time they appeared to hear the King say why for he had summoned his sixth Parliament...
Dominican Republic. The U. S. State Department also announced that U. S. Marines would be withdrawn from the Dominican Republic? which occupies the same island as Haiti, during the months of July and August. Four transports sailed from the U. S. to fetch off the devil dogs...
Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy: " From King Hussein of the Hedjas, I received a pair of magnificent Arabian horses. Despatches reported their arrival at Naples, said that my master-of-horse had journeyed to fetch them and that I, 'a consistent equestrian,' was pleased." Albert B. Fall, ex-Secretary of the Interior: " At Santa Monica, Calif., one Mrs. Katherine Petty was arrested, charged with carrying concealed weapons. Letters and telegrams found in her apartment and signed with my name, established her identity as my sister." Miss Ailsa Mellon, daughter of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon: " At the weekly...
...autograph sale in Paris, it became known that Premier Poincare had signed his name so often during his 63 years that his autographs would not fetch as much as $2 apiece. Benito Mussolini's signature, however, fetched almost $6, while Kipling's brought nearly as much as Napoleon's, at about $19. But the autograph of Nietzsche surpassed them all, an admirer buying...