Word: aimlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Horace Mann Towner, governor of the island, hurriedly cabled the War Department: "Full relief and reconstruction will probably reach into millions." Refugees from the rural districts poured into San Juan. Food prices skyrocketed. Eight representative islanders. watching three days pass in aimless water-soaked turmoil, wrote to the governor. "For 72 hours," they stated, "more than 300.000 people of this island, to estimate conservatively, have had little or nothing to eat and they will have nothing to eat for at least another week unless immediate and drastic action is taken. . . . Disease and famine are already here." They urged four relief...
...street, that respectable citizens left the swamps to low-class Irish and Negroes, companions in debauch. Fighting in their undershirts, with brickbats, bludgeons, paving stones, knives and guns, the sluggers ganged up: Plug Uglies, Dead Rabbits (then slang for rowdy toughs), Shirt Tails, Roach Guards, Gophers. Besides aimless roughhouse, just for the hell of it, they conducted elaborate hold-ups with prostitutes as decoys, robbed ships in the harbor, pilfered the Hudson coast villages, wreaked vengeance on interfering rival gangs, and assisted forcefully at Tammany elections. This valuable service was munificently rewarded by police connivance, practical immunity from prison...
...outsider can only watch its progress, if he cares to, and be thankful to have escaped thus far. For the Daughters are by no means aimless or inarticulate, and it is more than probable that they know what they want, even if others do not. At any rate they have taken steps to get it. The president-general, undaunted by a die-hard faction that called her "King George", and made ominous accusations that the congress had been a "steam-roller convention", seems to have won a great victory. The contract for supplying the members' pins was cancelled...
...have in America the largest public school system on earth, the most expensive college buildings, the most extensive curriculum, but nowhere else is education so pointless and aimless, so blind to its objectives, so indifferent to any specific outcome as in America...
Tatjana. The German film company, Ufa, has won merited praise in the U. S. for its fine films. This is one of its worst. The aimless story concerns a Russian prince, his princess, Tatjana, and his ingrate prot...