Word: heap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominate them in 1933, respectively, for City Treasurer and Controller. Boss Vare balked. Messrs. Hadley and Wilson got their jobs anyway by running on the Democratic and Town Meeting (Fusion) ticket and the Republican machine went to pieces in dire defeat. This year WillB Hadley returned to the junk heap to pick up the fragments and take the Republican nomination for Mayor. To his distress he there found a deadly rival: S. Davis Wilson...
...takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home...
...heap o' sun an' shadder, an' ye sometimes have t' roam...
...would do me good to have another smack at the creeping devils," said he. "The worst of it came during the retreat. Tired and thirsty, we were overtaken by mounted tribesmen who rode among us, cutting down thousands. I escaped by crawling under a heap of dead bodies. Hardly a wounded man on the battlefield escaped mutilation...
Bohrod is an able realist, somewhat after the manner of Charles Burchfield. A quality of charming naïveté arose from his photographically detailed landscapes into which he had put every broken bottle, trash heap, For Rent sign he had seen. In one picture the sign on a store, "Bohrod & Son. Est. 1934," was painted in just after his son's birth...