Word: junks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this custard's awful junk. He said bring it back if it wasn't right. No, I can't now. I forgot and ate it all. Well, that's just another he's gypped today...
...Manhattan, a Mrs. Elizabeth Uliano, junk dealer; her three daughters Helen Uliano, Mrs. Tessie Balletti and Mrs. Marie Giordano; her granddaughter Elsie Frontali, were all arrested and fined for scuttling through a department store like a pack of rats, stealing whatever they could lay their hands...
When they recommended that a civilian commission should investigate the shipping of the machine guns (which have already been scrapped and sold as junk by Hungary) the Council accepted this recommendation and hailed it as confirming in principle the League's right to investigate such matters-a right which Hungary had challenged...
...Treaty of Trianon under which Hungary is disarmed) has caused Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania, to demand a League investigation. Therefore, last week, Continental statesmen were electrified when it was announced, at Budapest, that the machine gun parts had been ordered broken up and would be sold as junk. Never did a suspected criminal more brazenly proceed to destroy "Exhibit A" before the very eyes of a judge not yet quite ready to hear his case...
...this covert insult another was speedily added when a Budapest junk dealer was permitted to bid in for 1,800 pengoes ($300) a quantity of scrap parts which could not be positively identified as identical with or different from those discovered on New Year's Day at the Austro-Hungarian frontier by an Austrian customs official but since then exclusively in the hands of Hungarians...