Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those days horses were outfitted with straw hats to protect them from the sun. In the Brooklyn firehouses on September 15, the fire gong would ring and, with great formality, the horses' straw hats would be destroyed...
...William Randolph Hearst, publisher extraordinary, retired politician, the Brooklyn, N. Y., Daily Eagle (Independent), popped these questions: "Whom will you support for President and what issues will determine the election...
Federal Judge William Hawley Atwell of Dallas, a big blonde blue-eyed Texan, is a stern and conscientious jurist. For two months he has served on the bench of the Federal Court, Brooklyn, N. Y., during the absence of a resident judge. He took with him a righteous whip which he had learned to crack below the Mason-Dixon line. He flayed what he conceived to be the lax, despicable mores of New York law courts...
Last week he went home, carrying two mementos. One was a set of complimentary resolutions tendered him by admiring jurors; the other was notice of a $50,000 slander suit brought against him by Attorney F. R. Serri of Brooklyn, no admirer. And as he entrained for Texas, echoes of indignation from New York's Negro districts filled his ears...
...shot scared Mrs. Mildred Stevens Morf, 27, of Brooklyn, N. Y. In the next room, she learned, a housepainter had mortally shot his brother, Herman Goldenberg, dentist. Mrs. Morf fainted. Taken home, she did not revive; would not speak or eat. Last week she died, from acute hysteria...