Word: homed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even at home Herr & Frau Boess were not allowed to forget the Sklarek fur coat. Communists booed and hooted under the Boess windows until driven away by industrious Schupos, then came back to boo and hoot some more. Most persistent was a stalwart young Red who strode up and down before the house clad with eccentric symbolism in an amorphous, shaggy fur coat dyed flaming yellow...
...forming new combinations for and against the government-that the president has often not known from whence to expect attack. At one tragi-comic moment he hustled 30,000 troops aboard transports and sent them sailing around the nether edge of China to Canton, only to order them, all home again when the trouble there proved a false alarm. Last week, however, the presidential gunboat sailed with definite purpose up the broad Yangtze to the great inland city of Hankow...
...love for art, however, still remains. It was he who had the inspiration for the Foshay Tower. His home and office are cluttered with statues...
...days later Chicago's public utility tycoon and opera promoter Samuel Insull announced that he would do the same thing. And so did Samuel W. Reyburn, president of Manhattan's department store Lord & Taylor. But the climax came when the wizened little man who lives in the fortressed home in Pocantico Hills, N. Y., said: "My son and I have for some days past been purchasing sound common stock." In memory of many a trader in Wall Street, John D. Rockefeller Sr. had never spoken of the market. Nor did he often speak on any subject...
Gram Dunham, 71, wife of Mellie Dunham (Henry Ford's famed Maine fiddler), went into the woods near Norway, Me. with a rifle, killed a buck deer, dragged it home, butchered it for steaks & chops. Said she: "When a family in the country needs fresh meat, a rifle in the hand is worth two fiddles...