Word: foul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Canton had quieted down for the night, but its 100,000 souls were, by no means, all asleep. Some worked on night shifts in the factories along foul Nimisillen Creek, making hardware, engines, safes, varnish, cutlery, paving bricks, structural steel. Some of them drained another, and then another and another glass in Canton's plentiful blind-pigs. People in bawdy-houses are seldom all asleep by 12:30, and last January 108 such houses flourished in Canton's three tougher sections, "The Badlands," "The Hole," and "Whiskey Centre." Gunmen and lords of the underworld are not asleep just...
...Right Honorable Herbert John Gladstone, first Viscount Gladstone, son of the late Victorian Liberal Premier, at once denounced his father's abuser to the secretary of the Bath Club, of which both Captain and Viscount were members. Lord Gladstone wrote to the secretary: "Captain Wright is a foul fellow! A liar, a coward and a fool...
...reliable, veteran, Ellison has not been able to hit this year, until he regains his batting eye, he will scarcely be able to regain his lost position. In the infield, no changes seem likely for the potent Chauneey has been doing adequate work behind the plate, and though his foul catching is notably weak, he has been throwing well, and his prowess at bat gives him a clear margin over the veteran ReRham...
...ridiculous excesses in bathtubs and flappers, has turned to Russia. He has taken the seething horrors of the Russian Revolution and turned them into a pale pink romance that will give you the fidgets. The Boatman of the title falls in love with the Princess, and the Princess falls foul of the wicked soldiers. The picture is often rescued by sets and photography of startling beauty...
...most exciting part of a game rather devoid of thrills came in the first inning after one run had come in when Todd knocked a foul fly and the side was retired by a fluke triple play, Spouquardi to Radcliffe to Chalmers. It was in the first inning also that Huntington got four of its runs not scoring again until the seventh inning. FRESHMEN a.b. r. b.h. p.o. a. e. Miyokawa s.s. 3 3 2 1 0 1 Crotty c.f. 4 1 2 1 0 0 Donaghy 3b. 3 2 1 0 1 0 Durkee...