Word: following
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then came the negotiators-Henry Moy, International Secretary of On Leong, surrounded by a group of followers, all of them surrounded by a protective cordon of detectives. Henry Moy protested in advance that although five members of his Tong had been slain in a few days, no reprisals had been taken or would be taken: "We shall not do so, unless driven to it in self-defence. Our society is anxious to obey the law. Hip Sings are law-breakers and cannot be depended on to follow out any instructions given by the authorities toward the suppression of disorder...
...takes you back to his graduation from a college in Texas and forth upon the moonlit road he chose to follow into the world. Soon you meet the Chicken-Wagon Family, camped for the night by a pine-fringed Louisiana bayou, and thereafter their story and Jim Pickett...
...Once on the outskirts of a town I came upon a dead woman. By her side sat her husband, who apparently was shortly to follow her. He held a baby - their baby-whimpering, naked, starved and cold. He also was crying. And he began to lick his child all over. I feared canabalism, but, no, he was simply trying to keep it warm...
...waiter to bring to the table a bottle of Imperial Toquay, and having filled two glasses, said; "Your health, my friend." Eugene Field, that celebrated wag with the face of a tortured martyr, would shamble into Lawson's office, bent on a loan of lunch money. Then would follow mumbled circumlocutions, explanations, an appeal, a roar of laughter from Lawson. Twisting his Savonarola visage, Field would scuttle from the office. . . "Sure, I diddled...
...situation contains any moral, it seems to be that using the popular slogan of "price-stabilization" to cover prices which from an economic standpoint are too high, is a poor policy to follow in the oil business. Once the United States oil industry was practically a monopoly and could do about as it pleased in the prices. That, however, was several years...