Word: footpads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier George followed the same line of argument, taunted the Chancellor for his "surrender of the public purse to footpad Admirals bent on holding up the Government and Parliament...
...THREAD OF ENGLISH ROAD-Charles S. Brooks-Harcourt ($3.00). Author Brooks went cycling across the southern English hills, but he announces on Page One of his account of it that: "We must expect no high excitement. I cannot 'boast even of so much as a footpad; nor shall we meet a single Duke whom we may later hand about the hearth among our homespun neighbors and say thus he spoke and thus we answered." But in spite of all this, or very likely because of it, he has transcribed an altogether delightful account of this picturesque ramble. He insists...