Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Damn! The other night Newspaperman James Hoeck, until recently of Shanghai, Canton, Peking; Richard Kerley, until recently of Memphis, and F. von Falkenberg, until recently of Palm Beach, Pensacola, Tallahassee-all sitting in the back room of a heimgemacht establishment joyfully guzzling brew, discussing Einstein, Nietzsche, Women, Words, TIME...
...badly broken. Mt. Holly and Camp Dix fell. Trenton was bombed to bits. Philadelphia and New York lay open to attack. Then with supreme courage and vigor the U. S. forces rallied and in a fine display of open warfare threw themselves savagely upon the enemy, driving him back and back. All losses were recovered. A "lemon squeezer" movement was being applied to the invaders when an armistice ended the "war," leaving 43,750 dead and wounded on the battlefield...
Simultaneously John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, Mayor Walker's voluble predecessor, now an independent candidate for reelection, put in wide circulation an envelope inscribed: "Voter-Who killed Rothstein and Marlow?" A card inside replied: "Send Hylan back to City Hall. Send Enright back to Police Headquarters. They may find...
...self-contained and impassive, stood nervously on the lake shore, watch in hand. He gave a signal. The crew of 16 took their posts, the twelve motors thundered. The enormous flying boat slid out with ponderous ease across the glassy water after taxiing about for practice, the helmsman circled back for another signal, opened the throttles wide. After a run of 30 seconds, the gigantic ship lifted clear of the lake and flew. Dr. Dornier bursting with excitement and relief, said: "It is going to be a wonderful flying machine." He is looking for a buyer...
Tycoon had smitten tycoon. The thews and sinews of St. Davids were those of the Chairman of the Buenos Aires & Pacific Railway, Argentine Great Western Railway, Costa Rica Co., etc., etc. When Tycoon Kylsant decided to smite back next day, he entered! the lists as Chairman of the Royal Mail, of the White Star Line and many another line, also as Knight of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem. Rising to address a shareholders' meeting of one of his subsidiary companies the "Lord of the Seven Seas" shook his impressive mane of pure white hair and solemnly declared...