Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good character and morals ... in possession of a flourishing business and doing well." Burns boarded at her mother's house, during which time he illegally obtained pay-check money while timekeeper for a construction company. He borrowed $2,500 from Emily del Pino, started his magazine. He never paid back the money, she says. After the magazine was started, Convict Burns and Plaintiff del Pino were married "to the entire satisfaction and good wishes of his family" (his brother is a minister). When Greater Chicago prospered he "stayed away from home . . . found amusement and pleasure in gambling dens." treated Plaintiff...
...back to the barracks he could not help puzzling over the two Voices. He finally decided it must have been something like this...
...came through all right, finally. Got hold of himself. And after that everything was easier. But to this day he holds that it was that Second Voice-Stiffening his back-that enabled him to "make...
...Back on the ground again. With a whole skin, and without breaking his neck. Grinning...
...time times he had ever "compromised," "shirked," "chucked it"-all the time he had let himself yield to soft, narcotic impulses in preference to harder, more tonic impulses-all the softness he had ever let form within himself-all that had waited till then to come back on him. That had been the one Voice; the mean hateful...