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Word: butted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of the Navy Adams last week called upon Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., for a written explanation of a speech he made in Pittsburgh last fortnight. Comparing Nicaraguan elections with Philadelphian, General Butler was reported to have said: "We Marines took charge of two elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Again, Butler | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Not in hope but in despair, in the weighing of different deaths, in a whisper passed with a plate at mess, along a file at exercise, in a package slipped under the table in the visitors' room, a stolen knife, a gun under the grey clothes?so prison breaks begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

From the snowy roadway, darkened in irregular patches by the parked automobiles of townspeople who had turned out to help, McGrath looked toward the wing of the grey stone block next to the warden's office, the wing where the rebels were barricaded. He could charge in all right, get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Behind the last barricade one Steven Pawlak, lifer, stood up. "Go to hell," he snarled. Troopers crossed the barricade after the last wooden-sounding machine gun volley. They found all the last six rebels dead in a pile. Warden Jennings, dragged to safety when the convicts charged the gate, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

"BORN FEB 1 1909 ATTENDED PROFESSIONAL CHILDREN'S SCHOOL WHEN YOUNG SENT TO BENNETTS BECAUSE SOME KIND WEALTHY LADIES THOUGHT I NEEDED FRESH AIR LIKE TO STUDY GREATEST AMBITION TO LIVE IN ITALY IN A COLD GARRET WRITE BAD VERSE AND DRINK YELLOW WINE WHEN I'M OLD WOULD RATHER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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