Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republicans and President Hoover for "all our civic troubles." It took him 2,400 words to get squarely planted on all the party's platform planks. Prettiest passage in the Garner acceptance letter: "It is not government business to make individuals rich, though too often has government been bent to that purpose. . . . Attempting to enforce morals by law [is] an unjustifiable invasion of the field preempted by the churches and schools. . . . Government is not a pedagog nor a parson nor a pied piper; it is merely a convenience of civilization...
...minutes later a shot rang out from the floor above. Walker, according to his story, dashed up to a sleeping porch. There he found his friend unconscious, blood streaming from a bullet hole in his head. Over him bent his wife, throatily sobbing: "Smith's shot himself!" They rushed him to a hospital. While he was on the operating table, his wife was given a spare room. Nurses later reported that they found Mrs. Reynolds and Walker tussling drunkenly on the floor, heard her say she was pregnant. At dawn Smith Reynolds was dead...
...jail courtyard, fastened their hands over their heads to the jail's window bars. They wore their shirts as the lash cracked down across their backs. Sheriff Stevens puffed and panted. One whip was broken, then an other. A blacksnake whip finished the job. The Brothers Wynn, heads bent but not painfully hurt, walked away through a crowd of gaping country folk who had gone to Millersburg to witness Ohio's first public whipping in more than half a century. Questioned as to his legal authority to impose such a sentence. Judge Putnam exclaimed: "This court is determined...
There was a great deal to discuss. The Fresh Meadow Course, well-trapped, tricky but comparatively honest, has bent-grass greens that are molded in sly ridges. In addition to this, a high wind blew through the first two rounds. A big California!!, Olin Dutra, had the low score ? 69 ? the first day but everyone said that the man to watch when the wind blew was dark, grinning Jose Jurado of the Argentine, favorite professional of the Prince of Wales, who was playing in his first U. S. Open. Wiry little Jurado hits his shots with an extraordinarily...
...until there was only a tight 20-ft. circle around Sarazen and his ball. Perkins tried to look over the heads in front of him but he could not do it. Standing on tiptoe, peering through his steel spectacles, he could just see the top of Sarazen's head, bent over the ball. Then he heard a hollow gobble as the ball went into...