Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told, by a young English poet, whose name I unfortunately do not know; and it was published, I believe, in a London newspaper. The Latin word for Canterbury is, as you are aware, cantuar; and the venerable Archbishop Lang must have had a twinge of conscience if his eyes fell upon these lines...
...provided by the Treasury Department. One man had incorporated his yacht and transferred to the corporation $3,000,000 in securities. Much of the income from these securities then escaped taxation, being used to pay the "losses" of the corporation from which he "chartered" the yacht at fees which fell far short of paying its upkeep. Other rich men formed partnerships with their wives and children thus splitting their income several ways so as to escape high surtaxes. A retired Army officer who has a large income from securities which he hopes to sell at big profit, took out Canadian...
...going to make Dillinger look like a neophyte." This sombre testimonial was justified shortly after the Goodland bank robbery. Pursued by two policemen, Brady & friends hid behind a church at a crossroads. When the officers drove up, the gang opened fire with automatic rifles and shotguns. Trooper Paul Minneman fell out of the car. Brady walked over to him. "This------'s dead," he said...
...father tended bar, he spent his barefoot childhood in the peaceful democracy of a small provincial town. Shortly before Prohibition shut down on Hickman County, Father Rascoe moved his family to the cruder boom environment of Shawnee, Okla. There Burton grew up with his peers, played football and baseball, fell in love and out again. But inwardly he was not so conformist; at 15 he confided to his journal: "My inward thoughts on things now differ so greatly from the thoughts of people about me that if I should speak out I should offend or horrify them. I love these...
...care, went forward to his favorite sunrise-watching spot, a door in the bow about 15 ft. above the water, kept open because of the halcyon weather. There he stood and watched the sun rise. As he turned to go, his foot slipped on a grease spot and he fell overboard...