Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slashed clothing, taken from victims of criminal violence in the past 20 years, were hauled off for incineration from the Criminal Courts Building. Present were the bloodstained garments of Stanford White (Thaw victim) ; of Ruth Cruger; of Herman Rosenthal (Becker case) ; of Barnett Baff (poultry king shot down Thanksgiving eve, 1914) ; of five-year-old Giuseppe Varotta (drowned by kidnappers). Had the City of New York cared to do so, it could doubtless have sold these garments to morbid curiosity seekers, netted several hundreds of dollars...
With the approach of the end of the fiscal year, the Treasury, on its New Year's Eve, had cause for rejoicing. It was apparent that the final casting up of accounts would show a surplus of about $400,000,000 or perhaps something better. The 25% reduction in income taxes, which is divided 50-50 between the collections of the last half of the fiscal year of 1923-4 and the collections of the first half of the fiscal year 1924-5, had reduced income tax receipts only about $100, 000,000, which was more than made...
COBRA?Frankly, but somewhat un-gallantly, setting forth that Eve is still the temptress...
...apple Eve has bitten...
...informed that Presbyterian politicians had packed the Assembly with enough votes to elect Macartney. He was told that the final balance of power had been secured when 18 Negroes were secretly pledged to vote for Macartney. Dr. Stone refused to believe a word of this. Then on the eve of election, appeared William Jennings Bryan who, having once been crucified on a cross of gold, is devoting his chief energies to a pitched battle with the ghost of one Charles Darwin. Political gossip boiled. Now Dr. Stone is a Fundamentalist. He is a busy churchman who has to his credit...