Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this fluent and elaborate narrative, shook their heads in complete disparagement. "The lying scamp," they murmured, "a front porch he could climb." The London Times, however, believed Pegleg Winthrop, published his story and an editorial, "... a brave man to treat disablement in the War as a spur, not a curb...
...TIME with a Christian curb upon one's righteous anger, how much the World has lost in losing Amundsen and how much gained by the rescue of Nobile...
Ella Randolph soon began to scream and succeeded after several minutes in attracting the attention of a crowd of taxi drivers lined up at the curb below. Obeying her instructions, these piled the cushions from their cars directly under the inverted head of Horace Poor. Policemen visited a nearby hotel whence they secured a blanket; this they stretched under Horace Poor, above the pillows and cushions. With a tremulous cry, Nurse Randolph released her banker; he sped down for an instant, plunged through the blanket and lay, panting and lolling, on the cushions...
Millions of paper profits disappeared. On one day New York Stock Exchange brokers handled 5,052,790 shares (a record number), New York Curb Market brokers...
...Slater, Mo., Ocie Wilson, Negro, killed Romeo Logan, Negro, in a crap-game fight. City marshal and constable came to take Ocie Wilson to jail. While they were taking him there, a large car without license plates cornered their auto against the curb. Twelve men, wearing masks, got out and pointed pistols. The men were believed to be Negroes. Learning of Logan's death, they had come to get Ocie Wilson...