Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes he sped, the police shooting at him. Then he bumped a light in front of a gas station, caromed into an alley, demolished a tree. In the darkness he slunk home, where police found him huddled in a clothes closet, popeyed, a rabbit's foot in each hand. He had also swallowed his tongue...
...Kansas City, Mo.. Charles M. Hofman and his wife called upon Mr. and Mrs. John G. Bennett, played argumentative bridge. Toward the end of the game Mr. Bennett bid a spade, Mrs. Bennett raised him to four spades, showed a "rather good hand." When he failed to make the bid. Mrs. Bennett called her husband a "bum bridge player," whereupon he leaned across the table, slapped her face. She excused herself from the room, rummaged in a trunk for a revolver, returned and shot him dead...
Wise in the ways of Chicago political expediency, Boss Granata had printed and circulated hand bills, calculated to spread ruin throughout the "old-line" camp, swing the mass of unaffiliated voters to his side. The remainder of the handbills were kept at independent headquarters, to be flourished as a fiery cross on election...
...favorite when the Queen was over 50, long nosed, toothless, petulant. A few years later, harassed by his insubordination, she signed his death warrant. Alternating between vicious whim and heroism, no admirer ever brought her a full, rich, personal love. When she died, no man's hand could, by her will, touch her body to embalm...
Strangely enough the score board in the Stadium is equipped with no device which can give out this information. There is a small space in the lower right hand corner of the board which is apparently reserved for time, but it is just as apparently never used. Even in the press box, special messages from the side lines are necessary to keep the scribes in touch with the progress of the periods...