Word: half-dozen
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...fast-gathering students were mindful of two things. Their eating houses were closed up and Jim was in trouble. So they forced the merchants to open up again, sized up the visitors and forthwith picked up a half-dozen and carried them to the shallow, convenient, cold Red Cedar. Downtown strikers heard and came fast but students came faster. More than eight strikers went in-around 20, I believe, for I saw and counted ten in at once...
...Hall Roosevelt and his sister, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. The President from his armchair called the changes: "Do-see-do! Down the middle and back again! . . . Swing your partner around to the right." Fledgling newshawks clapped in time to Turkey in the Straw, Dixie and Yankee Doodle. Soon a half-dozen reels, more energetic than polished, were in progress in different parts of the East Room. That evening the President stuck to his armchair instead of retiring early as he does at official parties, and the Press went home as usual in high good humor...
...Baptists. Most famed president the Northern Baptist Convention ever elected was Charles Evans Hughes (1908). Last week in Philadelphia's big Convention Hall met 5,000 Northern Baptist dele gates under the presidency of Herbert B. Clark, president of the North Adams (Mass.) National Bank, director in a half-dozen New England firms. Big, bald Banker Clark traveled 45,000 miles during his year in office, acquired a new pulpit manner speaking in hundreds of churches. Member of a rich Berkshire family (his father gave his old pastor $25,000 when that man of God retired), Banker Clark...
Near closing day last week, the Corcoran's last prize was awarded: the $200 popularity prize voted for by ordinary gallery-goers during the six weeks of the exhibition. Not one of the professional prizewinners or the critics' favorites was in the first half-dozen. To 343 humble Washingtonians, the best picture in the show had been Ballerina by Russian-born Feodor Zakharov, graduate of Imperial Moscow's Ecole des Beaux Arts, now a socialite U. S. portraitist. Slickly painted, showing a very refined young lady posed theatrically on tiptoe in the theatre wing, it won more...
...prosecuting attorney of Harlan County and started a crusade for miners' rights. Two years ago Cousin Elman stepped on his automobile starter, went up in a confetti of steel, flesh and dynamite. Since 1934, said the sheriff, he had appointed 379 deputies, of whom only a half-dozen or so were paid by the county. The rest were hired by the operators as "special guards." Senator La Follette produced an investigators' report which showed that of Sheriff Middleton's 163 current deputies, 14 had served time in State prisons, two in Federal prisons. 34 had been indicted...