Word: humped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the unmarked hump of ground in South Dakota's Black Hills where lies Deadwood Dick Carver, boomtown desperado and dime novel hero, the Deadwood Chamber of Commerce voted to place a rough stone monument and a brass plate...
...front and high behind instead of high in front, tapering behind. The new De Soto is an approach to the sweeping curve of a tear drop. Its front mounds up in a smooth curve over the engine, with headlights and other gadgets embedded in its solid structure. The hump of the tonneau is in the centre rather than at the rear of the car. The engine is over, not behind, the front axle. The rear seat is moved forward some 20 inches from its old place on top of the rear axle to slope off the body. The front seat...
Blind men ran their fingers over a Nazi hump-&-bump manifesto in Braille which keynoted "Vote...
Cuba. Hurricane groped across the Bahama Bank north of Cuba, turned away from Cuba, killed seven in the Bahamas, turned again and struck at Cuba's northern hump. In Havana harbor, huge seas overthrew the Malecon sea wall, scattered stone blocks like spume, flooded the water- front six blocks inland to a depth of six feet. In full force the hurricane hit the port of Cardenas in Matanzas Province, swept a tidal wave over the city, sank a gunboat in the harbor, destroyed docks, warehouses and the railroad station, cut off water and light, killed 30, injured 100. Cardenas...
Number One. Murray ("Hump") Humphries, said to have grown handsome since the days of his callow youth when police used to take snapshots of him for their rogues galleries (see cut). Unlike his imprisoned onetime chief, Al Capone, he shuns the public eye. He is about 34, athletic, has brains. He is credited with having persuaded Capone to enter the cleaning & dyeing racket, headed that department of the Capone industries. He is now board chairman of whatever is left of the Capone syndicate. Public Enemy Humphries claims to be legitimately interested in the cleaning business, chuckles at police...