Word: holds
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...executive committee of the Governors' conference met last week in Washington. Afterwards they went to the White House to pay their respects to President Hoover. Rhode Island's Case made the presentations, after announcing that they "didn't want anything." Broke in Virginia's Pollard: "Hold on! The Governor of Rhode Island may not want anything but he's not voicing my sentiments. Down our way we want a whole lot." President Hoover grinned. ¶ Over a new 3,000-mi. wire leased by the Associated Press to connect New York and Mexico City, President...
...hold the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment to be invalid and the motion to quash the [Sprague] indictment is accordingly granted...
...didn't you admit it right away?' I said, 'Well, I don't want to get in bad.' He said, 'Well, never mind. We have got a clear case. Just go ahead and make the admission in front of the girl.' " Another hold-up game practiced by members of the New York Police Department: arresting men on charges of "annoying women in the subway"; hustling them to jail; introducing them to certain bondsmen and "lawyers" who, for fat cash fees, hold "conversations" with the night court judges, get the cases dismissed, keep...
...ukulele is to Hawaii, the bagpipes to Scotland, the samisen is to Japan. A three-stringed, long-necked banjo with enormous decorative tuning pegs and a square wooden drum covered with white dogskin parchment, it makes a noise something like a ukulele-bagpipe merger. No Geisha girl dares hold up her elaborately coiffed head unless she is adept on the samisen. More samisens are made and sold than any other musical instrument in Japan, yet the samisen industry has felt the World Depression...
...front cockpit and started back over the wing to direct him. Meanwhile the pilot who had no time to lower the plane's retractable wheels, aimed his forced landing at a plowed field, skilfully "skidded her in." Just before landing, he saw Engineer Forberger lose his hold and disappear. Had the plane been 100 ft. higher, the engineer's parachute might have saved his life...