Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from a suburban nightclub and that other union officers had seen fit to buy him back for $50,000. Jimmy issued shrill denials, distributed a C.P.A. report on the union's finances which showed no $50,000 deduction. But he took to riding in a $25,000 armored car, and recruited a force of bodyguards which included two city detectives...
...tears streaming down his cheeks; when a more powerful rival appeared, Feng transferred his tears and loyalties to him. In 1923, Warlord Tsao Kun captured China's government and made Feng a full marshal. Once, when Feng visited his boss, he was met by Tsao's private car. Cried Feng: "Heaven above, how dare I, little rascal, use my lord teacher's car...
...night before to review. Well, next term I'll be different, Vag thought. I'll fool them and do the reading ahead of time. Way ahead of time, he ran his pencil back and forth across the page until he had nicely furrowed one paragraph. He scratched his car with the eraser and looked at his watch. Right where I should be. He skipped the next thirty pages, to give himself a half-hour break...
...congress, working through the days and half the nights, drew to a close, Italian workers brought votive offerings to the leaders on the dais-sacks of flour and rice for the congress' kitchen, an electric iron, a bicycle, a motorcycle, a Fiat car with headlights blazing. Most educational was a toy consisting of three tiny trucks on rails; one was labeled "reaction," and moved only backwards, the second was labeled "conservatism" and did not move at all, and the third was labeled "Socialism and United Peace Front" and zoomed merrily forward...
...Waiting. Rooms for Tourists was a literal portrait of a house in Provincetown near where he spends his summers. He had parked in front of the house evening after evening, making sketches by the dome light in his car. "Mrs. Hopper thought I should let the landlady know what I was doing out there," he says, "but I didn't want to intrude...