Word: holde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that," said Senator Smoot. "Just hold off and I'll see about...
...hope, an assortment of poets, prophets, hymn singers, professional reformers, unclassified uplifters, novelists, Federal office holders, reformed bootleggers, Anti-Saloon League superintendents, society leaders, social climbers, lame ducks and efficiency experts. This would have dismayed an ordinary general. But Jim Good is not an ordinary general. He took hold of this crowd and patiently instilled into its mixed elements of fanaticism and craftiness, its curiously contrasting elements of idealism and greed, the dependable, cooperative discipline of a magnificent partisan machine. He made them click-the whole lot of them, poets and place hunters-and the result...
Last week the deal was closed. New York Central received $41,000,000 cash, a vast and potent sum. The others set about creating a new company to hold Mohawk Valley, New York State Railways and Empire Power...
...truckle in this fashion to ignorant laymen, prayer might better be omitted at Republican Conventions. It would be Utopian to imagine that the hordes of greedy politicians gathered there would understand or even hear speeches addressed to their Father in heaven. Why then should reverend gentlemen of several sects hold up their faiths for a mockery by delegates who thought denomination was two words? Such a question was implicit in the further writings of that impious buffoon who criticized the preachers...
...class Irish and Negroes, companions in debauch. Fighting in their undershirts, with brickbats, bludgeons, paving stones, knives and guns, the sluggers ganged up: Plug Uglies, Dead Rabbits (then slang for rowdy toughs), Shirt Tails, Roach Guards, Gophers. Besides aimless roughhouse, just for the hell of it, they conducted elaborate hold-ups with prostitutes as decoys, robbed ships in the harbor, pilfered the Hudson coast villages, wreaked vengeance on interfering rival gangs, and assisted forcefully at Tammany elections. This valuable service was munificently rewarded by police connivance, practical immunity from prison, and a generally healthful atmosphere for thugs and thuggery...