Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happen to know about this incident because I heard the details firsthand from my aunt, Mrs. H. Allari, who was Harry Bridges' neighbor for several years. She lived at No. 2840 Pine Street, San Francisco, on the left side of the "five-room flat to a five-room house" from which the Bridges are moving next week...
...Bridges fell out the window, my aunt was unaware of the identity of her neighbors, although their kitchen windows were but 4 or 5 ft. apart. The Bridges' daughter used to enjoy taking my aunt's dog, Difo, for walks, but my aunt didn't know the girl's last name. Once in her presence she raked that terrible Harry Bridges over the coals but the child did not even peep...
...there may be "50 million movie-going males" from 15 to 65 in this country, and I am not going to be the one to say this is a lie. But I happen to be one of them, and my wife wants to know what is all this about Mae West and me. Now I have never seen one of her moving pictures. Honest and cross my heart. I have told my wife this, too, but she just wags her head in a kind of "You're not kiddin' me, Brother" fashion and says she knows what...
Alben Barkley, overcome with disgust at all his colleagues, snorted: "I don't know! Ask McNary! He's the only real leader round here. That was a hell of a harmony dinner we had last night...
...branches of the textile industry," stated Sidney Hillman's Textile Workers Organizing Committee in a memorandum explaining the strike, "silk is the most chaotic." That chaos, as most silkmen know, has been the result of an unintegrated industry composed of a few large mills and myriads of minuscule establishments, some of them no more than family shops. The industry's average silk plant has only 68 workers (compared with 296 in cotton mills, 236 in woolens). Shops open and close overnight. And of late a new jobster has cropped up called the converter-an individual or company, often...