Word: girt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Smith, Governors Ritchie of Maryland and Moore of New Jersey, and Senator Edwards of New Jersey, sat on top of a tall tallyho and paraded through Camp Moore at Sea Girt, N. J. An escorting horseman let his mount sidle into one of the coach's four horses. The coach horses reared, swerved. The tallyho tipped sharply, on two wheels. Nominee Smith and friends clutched their seats. Driver Charles Die reined the horses, straightened the coach. No one was hurt...
...gangplank of the S. S. George Washington there shambled, last fortnight, an unkempt, lanky man whose profile somewhat resembles that of the late famed Robert Louis Stevenson. Fellow passengers took small note of the droopy, bedraggled mustache, the old fashioned spectacles, the somewhat scrawny neck girt by a casual tie. Why should they? Not one American in ten thousand has ever heard of John Dewey...
Pennsylvania returned to Franklin Field, Philadelphia, after preliminary weeks at Sea Girt, N. J., pleased that the famed drop kicker, Folwell Scull, has recovered from injury...
Jaunty on many a British jurists' brow there perches the halo of high levity. Thus girt are Viscount Haldane and (notoriously) Baron Darling. Both are members of Britain's highest court, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Both grew quipful last week when the Committee considered an appeal by the Canadian Ministry of Finance against a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada respecting one Cecil Smith, confessed bootlegger. Succinctly put, the question at issue was: "Ought the Crown to reap taxes from incomes known to be drawn from illegal sources, or is the $90,000 annual...
Within the past week, Minister President Held of Bavaria girt up his loins preparatory to running in the Presidential election (scheduled for Mar. 29) for the Bavarian People's Party, while General Erich von Ludendorff, succumbing to the urge of his master, Adolf Hitler, would-be imitator of Mussolini, threw his helmet into the ring for the "Volkisch" Party, extreme Monarchists...