Word: bailiwicks
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...another young Andrew completed his education at St. Olaf's College and prepared for the bar. After a time he settled down to practice in Granite Falls, Minn. The year he arrived they made him attorney of Yellow Medicine County. He had Germans, Scandinavians, Canadians and "Americans" in his bailiwick. For 14 years part of his job was prosecuting blind-pigs, but he was not known as a drastic prohibitionist?rather as a man who "plugged" at his job. He also held the jobs of mayor, city attorney and president of the board of education. He was not a reformer...
Meanwhile in Boston. Joe Wong, laundry Tongster, was shot down over his shirts and soiled linen. Police Captain Goodwin threatened to have Boston's Chinatown condemned and destroyed by the Board of Health and Building Commissions, and to undertake deportation proceedings in his bailiwick...
...loyalty to the English manner. The Hill School was for many years the intimate home of the boys of the late John Meigs, and very particularly of "Mrs. John." It is now under the more formal (and perhaps more efficient) direction of the Rev. Boyd Edwards. Lawrenceville is the bailiwick of Mather A. ("Bot") Abbott, a man who acts as he looks and looks as he acts?vigorous. He has taught Latin at Groton and coached crew at Yale. Exeter, biggest of the lot, is guided by the sweet sternness of Lewis Perry, a Williams College man, of the intellectual...
...moral victory at the poll achieved by Leonard Wood in a far bailiwick...
...Bailiwick," by O. Kildare...