Word: halting
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Madame Marthe Bray, president of the French Women's Suffrage Alliance, sat by the chauffeur, directed him to halt at localities judged fallow for stump speaking. The response of the southern French peasantry to this whirlwind "missionary tour" in behalf of women's suffrage was reported "cold...
...failed to foresee what is now happening? Why did we not halt under the shells and convoke a board meeting of profiteers to decide the question whether it would allow us to continue in defense of the greatest conquest in history? Must the myth of German reparations lead up to American cash collections...
...fall from Trojan and Hellenic lips in his literary surprise. Once a breeze ruffled the music. Unruffled himself, Pianist Erskine caught the sheets and proceeded without a hitch. Once, to the dismay of the accompanying violins, the piano made an unexpected departure from the score, necessitating a momentary halt. "My fault," apologized the professor gravely, and resumed the cadenza. Prolonged applause honored this coolness as much as the technical skill, but loud cries of "Encore, Erskine!" did not distract the whimsical professor from his next business of moment-smoking a backstage cigaret...
Sirs: It is high time that someone call a halt to these self-appointed representatives of nations! I read Mr. Karl Busch's letter with growing abhorrence. . . . "We Germans"?where does he get that way? What he means is, "I, Karl Busch...
...sought for below the realm of the super natural. In fact the baskets had been stopped the night before by the two young scientists who are gathering data on them. A small kink in the wire near the nail from which it hangs had been enough to halt the gyrations of the delicately balanced baskets...