Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chronic malaria of labor trouble, see Red at every labor agitation. Some of them hate labor unions with the hate their trail-blazing fathers had for Indians on the warpath. And they do not flinch from rough & tumble with their enemies. Labor, too, has still something of the, devil-may-care spirit of the dance halls and the lumber camps...
...stands for National Recovery Administration while mine stands for National Revival Administration. Any doctor will tell you that you can't have recovery without revival. The same is true of our country.'' The audience cried "Amen'; and "Yeah, man." When Elder Michaux bellowed that "the Devil is right here in Philadelphia and we are going to get him," they stomped their feet and swung into "Happy...
...rivers ran with salmon and the forests with game. The neighbors, Russians and a few Koreans, were friendly. The Government ran a cannery, was building a Jewish theatre and new schools. But the Japanese were near, the winters were long and old Jews remembered it as Russia's Devil's Island whither the Tsars sent Jews and terrorists before the Revolution. Soon European Jews heard the rumor that on the day Biro-Bidjan was declared a Jewish territory a Siberian tiger ate the only policeman in the region...
...unremarkable child, but Selma's hopes of some day becoming a writer were not dashed. She said to herself: "Perhaps I can become a writer if it depends only on the will and not on talent. For will I think I have." Because she was sure the Devil lurked in a certain corner in the garret she forced herself to pass by there every...
Motorman Franklin got his start as a printer's devil in Coxsackie, N. Y. some hundred miles from his birthplace in Lisle, Broome County. In the early 1890s he set himself up as H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co., maker of die castings. Mechanically-minded young men of that time were absorbed in the automobile, and when John Wilkinson gave Herbert Franklin a ride in an air-cooled contraption he had just invented, Herbert Franklin decided to branch into the exciting new industry. In 1902 Motorman Franklin produced 13 automobiles priced at $1,100 each. Soon he ranked among...