Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parttime minister and farmer of the Black Lands, Wilford Smith went to Dallas as a boy, attended a Moler barber college, graduated (so he said) cum laude. Back in his home county of Delta, he worked in a store, cut hair on the side, studied at night, became a country schoolteacher. Said he: "The only weak moment I ever had was when I played croquet with some old-maid schoolteachers, one of whom I married...
...settled all arguments concerning distance, and a small pair of scissors, with which he trimmed the ends of the cigars he was forever chewing. He could argue any subject to victory or the exhaustion of his opponent. He settled his bills by stamping them PAID and mailing them back to his creditors...
Sixteen days, 19 hours, 4 minutes after leaving New York, Widow Adams was back again. She had flown all the way. Total mileage: 25,000. Cost: $2,500. Chortled she: "That's ten cents a mile. Can you travel cheaper than that...
...Geraci almost ran the ten blocks back home, to show her foot to her husband, a tailor who had lost his faith 31 years ago when an earthquake in Italy wiped out his family. "I believe! I believe!" cried Anthony Geraci, and rushed back to St. Lucy's with his wife. Soon there was such a press round the Geracis at the shrine that police had to be called. As the crowds continued to grow, Father Lombardo, who had heard of small "favors" (minor cures) at the shrine, said of Mrs. Geraci's healing: "It is a miracle...
...Back cracked rasp-voiced Charlie Hardy, saying that Senor Cintas was a disgruntled, discharged employe dealing in "misstatements and half statements." Back cracked Oscar Cintas with the charge that the Hardy law firm (Hardy, Stancliffe & Hardy) was making a good thing out of Car & Foundry. (The company paid the firm $12,825 in legal fees for the last fiscal year...