Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks before the hour of his death, "Paddy" Car smiled the smile of a big and happy Irishman, as he listened to the returns that elected him Sheriff of Cook County (Chicago) by a plurality of 125,000, the largest given to any Democrat on the ticket. And then suddenly his smile twisted into agony-sharp, devastating pain arose within him. The doctors said: "Ulcers of the stomach." In the Mercy Hospital "Paddy" Carr suffered, writhed and dreamed. Perhaps he visioned a spunky newsboy laughing in spite of the stench sf the Union Stock Yards, a lumber shover...
...Odessa. Bundled up as usual because of his uncertain health, he hurried with his bustling undersecretaries to catch the regular 6:40 p.m. through express to Moscow. Behind the puffing locomotive M. Tchitcherin's first class wagon-lit rumbled smoothly. Then came a jangling, second class car, a rattlety-bang third class coach and seven careening fast freight vans. Speeding northwestward to Schmerinka, northeastward to Kiew and Kursk, and finally due north to Moscow (900 miles), the train drew in on the morning of the third day at 10:54 a. m.-one minute ahead of schedule. "Scoops...
...national government is glamorous, but it is the city government which steps most noticeably on people's toes. It is the city that a man curses when he finds a parking ticket on his car, when his car is stolen, when he gets dust in his eye, when the street sprinkler squirts his new suit, when his son comes from the public school with a bloody nose, when his son cannot go to school because of a measles epidemic...
This morning special trains on the New Haven's two routes the Shore Line and the Williamtic Hartford Line will begin to leave at 7:20 o'clock. At ten minute intervals after this parlor car coaches will pull out of the South Station for the game center. The Harvard Limited an all steel coach train for students will leave Boston at 8:10 o'clock. The last train starts at 8:30 o'clock...
...pictures, that a poet is superior to a rhymer, but these distinctions are based on certain gradations of value. Would the Association classify Sliding Billy Watson as a hobo of a bum and would Bozo Snyder qualify as either? The fine fraternity of the open road and box car is threatened with the caste system when one wandering gentleman calls himself by a sweeter sound than another. Neo-classicism is raising its head bums must beware the genre as well as critics: it is devastating...