Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forecast Mississippi's future, told why it got in such a bad hole. Later in the week he set forth on a typical Bilboan barnstorming trip through the State's swamp towns and back-country villages. State law barred him from re-election but he was bent on picking his own successor...
...more than gratitude : "I hope the master [who financed most of his vagaries, including steerage passage to San Francisco] will take care of his honorable wife [who sold her precious marriage kimono for his maintenance]. . . . Please remember me to all who have eaten out of the same kettle. With bent neck...
...determined Phi Beta Kappa baseball talent will embark on a long matutinal motor trek with New Haven, Connecticut, as the objective. At least ten Crimson key-carriers, including two members of the Junior eight, will constitute the nine that is to invade the home of truth and light bent on showing that scholarships and athletic prowess can go very much hand in hand...
...University of California, will deliver the annual Cutler Lectures on preventive medicine this year. They will be given at the Harvard Medical School, Amphitheatre Building E. on Monday and Tuesday, April 27 and 28, at 5 0'clock; and on Tuesday at 8.15 0'clock at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston...
...Manhattan, a customs inspector bent over a trunk. A bottle of Irish whiskey had broken in it, rousing his suspicions. He took four bottles which had not broken and was about to clear the trunk and its owner, one D. Fish of London, when from a bundle of laundry tumbled unexpectedly several little books of paper slips. They were lottery tickets. Further search of Mr. Fish's baggage revealed a total of 1,000,000 tickets on the Irish Free State Hospitals Sweepstakes on the Epsom Derby. Convinced that the U. S. would be a fertile market after...