Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bedroom, took off his clothes, climbed into his bathtub, began to soak. . . . Beside the tub he had prudently laid out an automatic pistol-for times are strenuous in Chile (see below). Soon Señor Rioseco stood up and lathered himself. At that moment a soldier's gun butt crashed against the door. . . . Tough, the door held. The soldiers demanded of Señor Rioseco that he come out and submit to arrest. They shouted that he had embezzled 3,000,000 pesos ($360,000). "Open the door in the name of the law! . . ." Within the bathroom the pistol...
...Loree's Delaware & Hudson, said he: "That's all very true. But it's also true that 12½% of the presidents of the Delaware & Hudson committed suicide." One of the eight had done so. There was also the time when Mr. Underwood was the butt of witticism by Chairman William Haynes Truesdale, of the Delaware, Lackawanna. "Who was that Negress you were talking to?" boomed the Erie's President Under ood at Mr. Truesdale. Mr. Truesdale, who always seemed sleepy eyed, answered: "She was not a Negress. That was Phoebe Snow and she has just...
...Coolidge silence was no longer a butt. Fishing took its place, in a song that said, ". . . you must be an outdoor man like Calvin Coolidge." Uncle Sam was shown being shouldered off the front pages and into the funny papers by roaming royalty, the Hall-Mills case, Aimée Semple McPherson and a Chicago gunman. "How about another Bruce Barton interview with President Coolidge?" asked Uncle Sam. "Apply at the business office," said the editor, "for rates on political advertising...
...leathernecks he meets; pruning his technique down finer and finer; laying out, in patterns that grow increasingly simple and subtle, the terrific banalities that constitute life for the average Americano-that ubiquitous creature that no one ever sees in his own shaving mirror. Husbands and wives are the chief butt of Lardnerian irony, nor has he yet exhausted his variations on the subject. "The Love Nest," "Who Dealt?" and "Reunion" - all connubia- are the three best tricks in this new bagful, unless you choose "Haircut," wherein a smalltown barber unconsciously reveals his hero as a downright skunk. Most...
...chair?Hylan, onetime motorman on the L, which has its terminus across the square from the City Hall; Hylan, dubbed "Red Mike," with his red hair only partly dimmed from sitting several years on a Judge's bench; Hylan, whom all dailies except the Hearst papers made the butt of jokes and the target of civic invective; Hylan, from Brooklyn, who was never a Tammany man although Tammany helped him to the mayoralty twice for a total of eight years; Hylan, who himself declared that he was persecuted by the traction "interests" and volunteered to defend the populace from their...