Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...premonitory rumble of trouble issued from the throat of Sheriff George P. Nimmo, summoned from a neighboring county to direct activities in Passaic, when he stood on the mudguard of a red police-car reading a paper to a group of picketers. That paper was a copy of the Riot Act, which provides that any assemblage that hears this act read to them must disperse within an hour or be liable to arrest. Sheriff Nimmo, a fox-faced man in spectacles, read in a loud voice. The crowd began to move away; some did not move fast enough, were stimulated...
...miles he piloted his own motor car at such terrific speed that the Associated Press car which followed skidded into a sand dune, turned turtle...
Short Speech. Airplanes whirred, guns vomited, church bells swayed, and thousands of Romans loosed a mighty cheer as Mussolini's luxurious salon car squealed to a stop in Rome. II Duce, still in high spirits, consented briefly to address the throng. Standing up in his car, he cried: "Fascisti! Now is the time for acting, not talking...
...dropping bombs at random, their pilots little suspected that one bomb exploded within 20 feet of Roy Chapman Andrews, discoverer of the first dinosaur eggs known to moderns, chief of the American Museum of Natural History's division of Asiatic exploration. Mr. Andrews had wisely leaped beneath a box car when the airplanes soared into view, and was not among the five persons killed (all Chinese). Emerging from his impromptu shelter, he continued to supervise the loading of the car with scientific paraphernalia for his latest Mongolian expedition. The despatches stated that three other U. S. scientists accompany him, made...
...fourth or firth-rate author entered a certain railroad car that loaded up one day last week in the Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan, he would have thought that, verily, he had strayed into heaven. It was a car completely filled with potent publishers-about 30 of them...