Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the stars and the balls of tinfoil we delightedly rolled up would have impressed us much if other leftovers hadn't followed us all through our school days. Cannon on the courthouse lawn; a mail-order catalog soldier-with-bayonet in every public park; red paper poppies for sale in the streets; yearly "Conventions" with men in uniforms bowling down Main Street, slapping each other on the back, singing rowdy songs, drunk at the intersection trying to direct traffic with a cardboard whistle. Later, war movies, R. O. T. C. parades, University Gothic towers with memorial plaques, billboards plastered...
...Judge Wilson's fitness for his new job, Attorney General Cummings declared: "You may rest assured, he wouldn't have been appointed if he hadn't been fully qualified...
...editors and publishers back home. All queries began alike: "Is the story true that . . . ?" The stories also had one central theme: Franklin Roosevelt was on the verge of a collapse, physical, mental or both. He had, according to the tales roaring through the country in whispers, grown mentally irresponsible. Hadn't you heard that during a Press conference he had a fit of laughter, had to be hurriedly wheeled out of the room? Why, his intimates were taking the greatest care not to have him make a spectacle of himself on public occasions. And when he heard the Supreme...
...cried Mrs. Rattenbury. " 'Rats' had lived too long! No, my lover did it. 'Rats' said I hadn't the guts to kill...
Police arrived to find Mrs. Rattenbury tipsy in pajamas. "Anything you say may be used against you," they warned. Babbled Mrs. Rattenbury: "I did it. 'Rats' had lived too long! No, my lover did it. 'Rats' said I hadn't the guts to kill him. I know who did it. I'll give you ?10. No, I won't bribe...