Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four-thirty p. m. one day last week was a zero hour. When it came, 130 Federal Prohibition agents simultaneously launched 35 assaults along a 200-mile liquor front in the sea angle from the tip of Long Island to Atlantic City. Down they bore on hotels, road houses, garages...
Denmark, Italy and Mexico are all about to adopt new penal codes. Last week the relative sophistication of these countries appeared significantly from the different punishments recommended by their respective ministers of justice in cases of marital infidelity:
All eight members of the Federal Farm Board settled back securely in their swivel chairs last week as the Senate, after seven hours public haggling, confirmed their nominations. The Comptroller's office at last opened its eyes to the Board's official existence and drew, three months late...
Last week, one George R. Clark of Cynwyd, Pa., Harvard sophomore, sat down on the steps of Harvard's new Fogg Museum, took off his shoes, proceeded to bathe his feet. Spying a Chinese student about to enter the museum, he arose and shouted, "I hate Chinese!" Then he...
With Scot MacDonald away, the steering committee of the Labor Party was in undisputed charge of its alert, broad-featured chairwoman, Miss Arabella Susan Lawrence, a rich barrister's daughter who would rather be Laborite than socialite. Last week Miss Lawrence heard rumblings of discord. People were beginning to...