Word: doorsteps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Petersburg itself. Twenty years before, Dagö Island had been colonized by good industrious Swedes who fished in the Gulf and made hay on the salt marshes. In 1787, Peter's grand-daughter-in-law, plump, passionate Catherine II grew tired of this Swedish colony practically at her doorstep. With a gesture she had it deported. The Dago fishermen and their families were driven to the mainland, herded across Russia, stopped for a time in southern Russia, settled at last in the Ukraine, out of sight and out of mind of Great Catherine. Here the Swedish exiles founded Gammal...
Just when Tammany Hall was bracing itself for a New York City-wide election this fall, a bloody body was last week plunked down upon its political doorstep. Frank Marlow, murdered Broadway gambler and racketeer, had hardly been settled in his coffin before a so-called Better City Government League nominated one-time (1918-25) Tammany Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan to run as an independent candidate against Tammany Mayor James John Walker. The Hylan war-cry: Stamp out crime, vice, corruption...
...doorstep General Calles dismissed the eager crowd of newsgatherers who had followed...
...Insult-in-Ordinary, repair to the doorstep of your Insulter, and there publicly jump up and down, holding your breath, until your face is purple with congested blood. The insulter's neighbors will not let him forget this rebuke in a hurry...
However, although young Furoda had announced himself extraordinarily insulted, and although he seized a hara-kiri knife and rushed in a towering rage to the house of his insulter, he failed to disembowel himself upon the doorstep. Instead, when Insulter Yamamoto opened his door, In-sultee Furoda, violating every canon of Japanese etiquette, plunged the short sharp blade not into his own vitals, but into those of the astounded Farmer-Laborite, who died instanter...