Word: foule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truck drivers. Within a few days the Newark, N. J. Cake Bakery, the Atlanta Bakery and the York, Pa. Pretzel Factory suffered walkouts. Director Ogden Mills's house at No. 2 East 69th Street was picketed.* Currently both sides are accusing each other of thuggery, intimidation and general foul play...
Going into the overtime, William Lee scored a one-handed field goal for the Crimson, while Clinton Frank tallied on a foul for Yale. Then, with one minute left, Lewis A. McGowan gave the Crimson a 30 to 27 lead on a long shot, while Fran Gallagher brought the Yale total to 29 as the game ended...
That the mansion, Compton Place near Brighton, has even one bathroom is amazing considering the early Victorian tastes of the Duke of Devonshire who has called such modernities as motor cars "foul, stinking things, horrible brutes making life hideous!" On a recent visit to London, His Grace congratulated himself that "I was able to find a hansom...
When Devonshire heard that Their Majesties were coming, he did, however, have the bathroom at Compton Place repainted. Fabulously rich, he owns an emerald two inches long, 186,000 acres, palaces galore. Last week Their Majesties, who are far from considering their Daimler limousine a foul, stinking thing, motored down to Compton Place where a brand new police box had been established. A special post office was put into operation to handle the Royal mail. Apart from this George V made no changes or modernizations in archaic Compton Place except to have installed his favorite seven-valve (tube) radio...
...impossibly high ransom. Back in Spain he found various ways of nearly starving, loved a slut who left him, married a slattern whom he gladly left. As a middle-aged tax collector for Philip's insatiable treasury Cervantes might have ended his weary days. But he fell foul of his superiors, was arrested for embezzlement and clapped into the big jail at Seville. There, with the scum of Spain as his audience and his inspiration, Author Frank leaves him, happily hard at work on his masterpiece...