Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General," said a punctilious acquaintance, "come back and sit down. They've just put the Statue of Liberty in front of your place, carved out of solid...
Many a bullet zinged back and forth last week across the Detroit River as the U. S. continued its warlike efforts to check the flow of liquor smuggled in from Canada. Many a bitter word crackled back and forth across the U. S. Senate where Wets and Drys alike flayed the indefiniteness of the Hoover Prohibition policy...
...chase up along Belle Isle under a peppery rain of bullets. Its windshield was splintered to bits, its bow bored in with leaking holes, its engine damaged. A final volley came from the rumrunner as it slipped away to hiding in the Canadian marsh. No. 1401 had to chug back to its dock for repairs...
...village of Palmagyu, Rumania, in the Transylvanian Alps, peasants stood in idle groups last week and talked in proverbs of the devil and money. Had they not just seen what the money devil could do to a strong man? Ion Gerghuta, their neighbor and a thrifty farmer, had come back from the town of Kronstadt with his crop money?...
...drink. His six-year-old son, a neat child, found the dirty scraps of paper littering the table. He swept them together, clutched them up, pushed them into the fireplace. The flames spouted and little black cinders of money blew up the chimney throat. When Ion Gerghuta came back and saw what his son had done he killed him, swiftly. In another room Ion's wife was bathing her year-old baby. She heard her son scream and ran to him. When she returned, the baby had drowned in its bath water. Ion Gerghuta's wife ran from the house...