Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...titles, and others, Rig; as, the Letter-racket; the Order-racket, the Kid rig, the Cat and Kitten rig; etc., but all these terms depend on the fancy of the speaker. In fact, any game may be termed a rig, racket, suit, slum, etc. by prefixing thereto the particular branch of depredation or fraud in question...
...House of Representatives has the right to impeach any public official, and if the Power Commission shall be derelict in the performance of its duties, the orderly and constitutional manner of procedure by the legislative branch would be by impeachment and not through an attempt by the Senate to remove them under the guise of reconsidering their nominations...
...filthy is Monrovia that last week the local branch of the Bank of British West Africa closed permanently "because the complete lack of sanitation endangered the lives of employes"; but brave black Minister Mitchell will risk his life gladly...
...centesimo (1/5?) : the Olive Branch ; Papal Arms...
...32nd Street: The wind sniffed like a happy cat At scuttling beetle-people, The sunshine would have roused a flat To try and be a steeple. My breakfast in me warm and staunch, Your letter in my pocket, The world's a coon that's climbed a branch And I am David Crockett...