Word: frees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...footnote page 54, TIME, June 24, for blind baggage. I have always understood the blind baggage to be the narrow forward platform of the foremost baggage or mail car, immediately behind the tender. This is one of the three points at which hobos may attempt a free ride on a passenger or express train, the other two being the roof of a car and the rods...
...ponies for an international match. Sportsman Dillingham contributed two prize mounts, with the proviso: "If anything happens to them, we are to stand the damage." Harry Payne Whitney did his best to return this patriotic courtesy by helping Mr. Dillingham pick out some fine Virginia mares and serving them free at the Whitney stud, to give the Islands a good new strain...
...radical anti-clerics. They protest that it is a world defeat for the forces of Liberalism. An unnamed politician said: "The Roman Church will strengthen its hold, especially on the Latin-American countries, which are watching Mexico's test and are anxious to follow her example . . . to free themselves from the yoke of the clergy...
...Last week, his brother, Murry Guggenheim, announced that he would give $4,000,000 to establish free dental clinics for children in Manhattan...
...Author. Aged 20 in 1920, William R. Burnett married a 20-year-old wife in Springfield, Ohio. Not rich, both worked. All his free time, all his nights and Sun days of the next seven years, Burnett spent at his desk. He wrote five novels, 50 short stories. None of them satisfied publishers or himself...