Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to Albany and there made a Tammany record on the saloon, the gambler and the prostitute. "No Klansman in a boob legislature, cringing before a Kleagle or a Wizard, was more subservient to the crack of the whip than was Al Smith-ambitious and effective and smart as chain lightning-in the Legislature when it came to a vote to protect the saloon, to shield the tout and to help the scarlet woman of Babylon, whose tolls in those years always clinked regularly in the Tammany till. . . . "I am throwing no mud at Governor Smith. He is honest...
...pulled out a pistol and robbed him of cash, watch, chain, collar button. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Skippers Harry Pigeon of Los Angeles and Alain Gerbault of France, though not present, were awarded Olympic diplomas for meritorious individual sporting conduct. At Sloten, on a canal built 20 feet above the land, the University of California eight-oared crew, Olympic favorite, practised before astonished milkmaids, proud tourists. Dr. L. Clarence ("Bud") Houser, discus thrower of Los Angeles, was selected to take the Olympic oath for the entire U. S. team. One day, in practice, he tossed the discus 155 feet through...
Memorable, in a week of mid-year statements, were the sales figures of 36 chain stores; Jan.-June, 1928: $649,661,650; Jan-June...
Early and exuberant were the mid-year statements of Big Business. U. S. corporations listened skeptically to gloomy prophecies of the end of "Coolidge prosperity," then announced record sales, new high profits. Chain stores declared June sales of $123,239,775, an increase of 21.6% over June, 1927, while their six months' gains totaled 17.2%. Prohibitionists could I rejoice at the report of the company headed by Sebastian Spering Kresge, Anti-Saloon League angel, showing $62,790,164 sales, $6,527,111 earnings, as against $55,-900,987 and $5,756,039 for the first half...
...once traveled from Ireland with nine Catholic priests; all went to the same London hotel; all went to the cinema; all held hands. "Nine Catholic priests, and you in the middle?"-"No, at one end. Father Michael and I holding hands, and all the other eight too in a chain. Very intriguing...