Word: heaped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front of an eastside Manhattan cafeteria. In his pocket was found a printed invocation: St. Joseph, Patron Of A Happy Death, Protect Me. ¶The body of John Franzione, who with four companions killed a detective last July and later squealed on them, was found on a Bronx refuse heap. ¶Two detectives followed two gunmen into a saloon on Lexington Avenue. The gunmen held the place up, shot it out with the detectives. Fatalities: Gunman Albert Checchia and Detective Christopher W. Shueing, whose father received the Congressional Medal of Honor for rescue work when the Steamer General Slocum burned...
...with two young friends what he believes was the first successful airplane ever to be constructed in Spain. In 1919 he built the second tri-motor in the world. It flew well, but a test pilot unaccustomed to such craft banked it too low, side slipped it into a heap of wreckage. Then it was that Senor de la Cierva determined that aviation would need a ship that could be flown slow as well as fast, low as well as high, in safety. In all the crack-ups that attended experimentation - and they were not numerous - no one was seriously...
...performance began at 11:00 p. m. The audience kept her dancing and bowing for two hours. Later with her own company she produced many elaborate ballets but most memorable was her simple Swan Dance at the end of which, bravely dying, she crumpled into a pitiful, feathery heap...
...irregularities, meat packers, ambulance chasers for State and city investigations. He is counsel for Bank of United States which crashed last fortnight. Policemen. First puddle Counsel Kresel dipped his hand into was the Women's Court. Month ago he held a three-day hearing, piled up an ugly heap of evidence against crooked policemen, their parasites and prey. Last week at a departmental investigation of 18 plainclothesmen, Counsel Kresel's star
...conslusion, Senator Walsh said, "it is manifest madness in times such as these when not only the United States but the whole world is in the throes of a severe depression and millions of people are in want that we should heap on the backs of business men and workers the gigantic financial burden of great armies and navies. If Armistice Day has a purpose it should be the forming of the resolve to bring to an end the present excessive armaments and the great tax burdens of which they are the cause...