Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midnight an armored car and two lorries full of men halted opposite the palatial country residence of M. Trotsky outside Moscow. The men descended, marched to the big iron gates and demanded to be admitted "in the name of the Cheka." Trotsky's guards refused to open the gates; the men from the Cheka blew them up. Inside the grounds, however, they were confronted with barbed wire entanglements and a chain of concrete "pill boxes." Fire was opened, two Cheka men dropped dead; the remainder took cover; communications were cut. Meanwhile, one of Trotsky's soldiers had climbed...
...though I had drunk champagne, which I hadn't! He talks a lot, but talks well; is never dull. Last week Mr. Swope?Herbert Bayard Swope?newspaperman extraordinary and editor plenipotentiary, put over a coup. Swope, executive editor of The New York World, went to Washington in a private car, trailing substantial citizens and potent business men in his wake. He returned home jingling the Democratic National Convention of 1924 in his pocket. The story of that event really began 42 years and 10 days earlier, when the cyclonic Swope bounded into the world at St. Louis. He traveled...
...Committees." They, substantial citizens, laid the groundwork and made the preparations. Tammany was not included on the Committees, but Charles F. Murphy, Tammany boss, was doing his bit on the side. Money was raised. Then came the trip to Washington in a private car. It was a glorious party. There was Judge O'Brien with a certified check for $150,000 in his pocket. There was the Judge's son, young Kenneth O'Brien, potentially famed lawyer and Secretary of the National Democratic Club. There was the Acting Mayor of New York City. There was Tex Rickard, A. C. Pearson...
Giovanni Papini, author of The Life of Christ: "In Florence, I fell from a moving street car, crushed my heel. My condition, though painful, was not considered serious...
Nerves that was what was the matter with Henry Williams. He was a nervous wreck. He admitted it. He bragged about it. To be sure, when it came to a showdown, his nerves didn't fail him in holding up a large touring car and robbing its occupants of all the gasoline they possessed, nor did it interfere seriously with his fighting ability when Mort forgot that Sally Morgan was supposed to be married. But all sorts of things happen in Montana, you know, and even very intelligent young men from Pittsburgh may learn a thing or two there...