Word: sergeanting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...appeal. They complained that Republican Senate Leader Watson was not leading as a good leader should, admitted that the slim Senate quorum might collapse altogether if Senator Watson tried to press the opposition too hard. They speculated to the President on applying cloture to the Senate debate, ordering the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest absent Senators as a means of maintaining a quorum...
Last week the Navy Department announced receipt of a letter from a onetime Marine sergeant, resident of California. He said that while visiting in San Antonio, Tex., he obtained from an anonymous chance acquaintance a diary purporting to be written by one of four German hirelings who dynamited the Cyclops on the high seas. Excerpts from the diary told how charges had been set in the ship's engineroom, how the diarist and one accomplice had escaped in a small boat and were rescued by a German vessel, how the fugitives and German crew meticulously destroyed all traces...
...Last week, trying to force through some legislation that would make this bond issue possible, Governor Long stood at the door of the legislative chamber, peeking in. The sergeant-at-arms slammed the door in his face. †Chincapin: dwarf chestnut...
...College Gate heard muffled sounds which might or might not have been shots. Shambling into the hoary building he heard a hoarse scream, quickened his pace to a bound. At the top of the stairs he stumbled over a man from whose leg and chest blood gushed-Detective Sergeant Willis...
While the police were wondering whether all this was mere publicity for "Madge Miller," Detective Sergeant Willis, who had been carried senseless to a nearby hospital, roused from his state of coma. In a few gasping sentences he sufficiently confirmed the dancer's story, then coughed, choked, died...