Word: heaping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stock yards, and Boston for its beans, some degree of urban pride was possible; but now with Philadelphia hailed for its underworld, Washington for its baseball team, Chicago for its murderers, and--worst of all--Boston for its cake eating, Civil Pride must hide its head beneath the ash heap. One can forgive the other cities but never Boston--just entitled The Greatest Cake Eating Center in the World...
...flesh and the devil outside of his villa: "I beg you to declare that I have become the solitary, proud artist of 1911. It is my firm decision not to care or to know what happens outside my villa. Every evening, I burn before an altar of stone the heap of the day's unopened and unanswered letters. To write to me is useless, to come to my door equally useless. I answer nobody; I receive nobody. Neither prayer nor insolences can break my monastic enclosure. My dogs are wise and bite well. Have I made myself clear...
Until the present note, no action was taken by the Allies, who feared to heap fuel on the fires of Nationalism during the recent election...
Twenty years have passed since Yale perched on top of the Intercollegiate track and field heap. Next Friday and Saturday at the Harvard Stadium, the Elis may annex their first title since 1904, in the opinion of experts...
...throat lair known (because of the scum that frequents it), as the Dust Heap, a stealer of women brings a supposedly half-breed female ward of a priest, under the transparent pretence that her guardian wants her. He turns her over to his French Canuck pal, who starts dragging her significantly up the stairs...