Word: downing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For many reasons police wanted sly-faced, little 24-year-old Badman Nannery. A year ago he and his pal Edward ("Snake") Ryan escaped from Sing Sing by clambering through a transom in the prison kitchen, scaling the wall, swimming away down the Hudson river. Ryan was recaptured and returned...
Yankee Roberts of Missouri, using a peg, passed down his rows in bounds but he was only taking two rows at a time. Harold Holmes of Rio, Ill, working as though there were no hurry at all, took three rows at once, seldom losing an ear. Tague of Iowa had...
The huskers' hands worked like shuttles in two motions?up and down. They tore the ears off the stalks, twisting the instruments on their gloves so as to lay bare the smooth corn kernels. With their free hands they took hold of the bare ears, twisted and snapped off the...
"I suppose it is natural that my English friends generally, from the King [Edward VII] down, should think I was under the influence of the Kaiser [Wilhelm II], but you ought to know better, old man. There is much that I admire about the Kaiser . . . [but] he himself is altogether...
When the bean schedule was reached Generalissimo Smoot and Field Marshal Simmons had an acrimonious dispute. The Field Marshal, red in the face, waved his arms and cried: "The Senator from Utah knows nothing about beans!" Glaring down scornfully upon his opponent across the aisle, the Generalissimo snarled back: "Beans...