Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jake Zobetser (villain) : "With his huge, rounded shoulders, fat neck and enormous head bent over the desk, and his thin legs that appeared inadequate to carry the bulk of his body, he looked not unlike some uncouth monster of a fairy tale...
...Premier George followed the same line of argument, taunted the Chancellor for his "surrender of the public purse to footpad Admirals bent on holding up the Government and Parliament...
...Polish Republic (there are 400,000 of them) should be repatriated* to Germany. The German Government was informed by the Polish Government that its right to repatriate Germans resident in Polish Silesia would be exercised. Diplomatic negotiations were opened and, although it was clear that the Poles were inexorably bent upon carrying out their plans, the German Government took no steps to provide for the refugees from Poland. Either this was their stupidity or, more probably, a maneuver to show the Polish Government in the most unfavorable light...
...laundryman, was harassed by a gang of rowdy youths who threw stones into his windows, pounded on his doors when he slept, tossed garbage upon the linen he had just laundered. One day last week they began their activities by nonchalantly stoning him through the open door as he bent his wet yellow face over an ironing board. One of the missiles struck the board. Wong Low screamed; the youths jeered. Chattering Chinese imprecations, Low drew a revolver from his blouse, began to shoot. The boys scattered, but one James Courte, aged 22, dodged into a doorway, was "cornered...
...Chauncey Depew," intoned a clerk in a Brooklyn police court last week. The furtive-eyed perspiring group of profaners of public morals, committers of malicious mischiefs, waiting there for their cases to be called, gaped, nudged one another, bent forward excitedly to hear charges read. Chauncey Depew, it was alleged, had made indecent advances to one Mrs. Louise Kracher, had addressed her in profane language. The malodorous crowd leered knowingly at the culprit-a bald, skinny little man with glasses...