Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Going down Lacon Mountain 20 miles out of Decatur, the five cars carrying prisoners and officers came suddenly to a halt. Later there was no agreement as to how and why the affray started. But. in sum, Negro Ozie Powell leaned forward and sliced a deputy sheriff in the neck with a knife. The sheriff then shot off a portion of Ozie Powell's forehead. The deputy was rushed off to a physician who closed the wound with twelve sutures. Ozie Powell, still conscious and still chained between two of his fellow prisoners, was driven 70 miles...
Well prepared for the occasion, he had brought along mimeographed copies of his formula. Soon as he finished talking, the 3,000 dentists leaped from their seats to cheer and yell, rushed for copies of the formula, fought, shoved, elbowed their way forward. Ushers, finally despairing of decorum, saved their skins by heaving handfuls of the copies over the heads of the grabbing dentists...
...Front Commun represents over half the electoral body. Please do not speak of "La Belle France" as being on such good terms with Mr. Laval; there is no such a thing as "realistic France", there are so-called realistic Frenchmen and others that are not. In fact I look forward to a decided success in the March elections for the pro-League and pacifist parties...
...whom she met on the way over, and brings the erstwhile namby-pamby into conjunction with the pretty dancer of the lot. Lesser triumphs, such as beating up Bowery toughs, are scarcely worth mentioning. "A remarkable child," you'll say. The fact is that Jane Withers really has a forward, winning way about her, even if her sauey brogue in this picture, on the authority of our Irish friends, is a bit spurious...
...last days and the young men shall prophesy and the young women shall dream dreams. In Revivalist Wright's small, fervently praying congregation sat a grizzled Ford Motor Co. employe named La Verne Tapp, his wife Myrtle, his 17-year-old daughter Shirley. The Tapps had been looking forward to the meeting. Shirley, who was "saved" at 14 by the Full Salvation Union, remarked: "It's going to be a great meeting although the Devil has sent ice and snow to try to thwart the Christians." So when Evangelist Wright brought his exhortations to a shouting climax, pale...