Word: inde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President appointed Oscar Luhring of Evansville, Ind., a one- time (1919-23) Congressman, now a member of the legal staff of the Department of Labor, to the post of Assistant Attorney General...
...Elnora, Ind., nocturnal yeggs fiddled at the combination of the vault in the Citizens' Bank. From inside the vault came a faint tinkle of breaking glass. The yeggs gagged, struggled for breath, staggered out of doors, undetected but quite through with safecracking for that night. Next morning, the bank officials beamed with delight at the evidence of foiled foul play and the efficiency of a fragile flask of Lewisite* they had had installed in the vault by a Chicago firm. Other bankers hastened to ask questions, order flasks of Lewisite for their own protection. Other yeggs scowled...
...much, was certainly a queer place. All the buildings were square and pointed and dirty. All the people were sahibs and mem-sahibs, but somehow quite different from those in far-off India. None of them wore those spotless white clothes which they wore in the land of Ind. More strange, many seemed very poor, and none of them seemed to have any servants following them. The men that he mixed with at the university and at the Inns of Court eyed him strangely. When he spoke to them, which was rarely, they were urbane but aloof, cold, unfriendly. Once...
...competitors to nine state champions, who laughed to hear the cinchy words they began the finals with-"catch, black, grant, warm." First to drop out was Almeda Pennington of Houston, Tex., who slipped up on "skittish." "Scittish," Almeda spelled it. Mary Coddens, the little Belgian girl from South Bend, Ind., was next. She has spoken English only five years, but never faltered until she mixed "cosmos," the universe with "cosmas," a flower. Loren Mackey, the bass-voiced Oklahoma boy, followed Mary out. "Propeller...
...came from old U. S. stock-on his father's side from the family which produced John Marshall; on his mother's side from Charles Carroll, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. At 19, he was graduated from Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.). At 21, he took to the bar and stayed there for 34 years...