Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles ("Vannie") Higgins, 34, leading Brooklyn racketeer; shot to death while returning with his family from a tap & strut dancing exhibition by his 7-year-old daughter; in Brooklyn. Mrs. Higgins said her husband had been fired upon by two gangster-laden sedans but police believed he had stopped to chat with two friends who suddenly opened fire. Questioned by Police Lieutenant McGowan, Racketeer Higgins replied: "Don't bother me, Mac. I'm sick." Just before he died he mumbled: "I've got to live. .. . Gotta straighten this out. . . . They tried to wipe out my whole...
When Dr. Hoffman deplores the lack of an anti-suicide agency in the U. S., he ignores (because he thinks it "poorly equipped") the National Save-a-Life League, founded 1907 by Dr. Harry Marsh Warren (TIME, Dec. 7). Dr. Warren and his aides let soul-laden people (2,240 last year, 1,355 so far this year) talk themselves out. Clients include "businessmen, doctors, lawyers, judges, ministers, college students, unfortunate girls, wealthy men and women, actors, editors, bankers, executives of large concerns, society women and club...
...surprise. Steelmen knew Mr. Irvin. They had met him at the Duquesne Club, at association meetings and dinners. They all knew him to be a good operating man, one of the kind popularly supposed to be able to tell the rate of production by sniffing Pittsburgh's cinder-laden air. But none had ever dreamed he would rise to the greatest height in their world. If he had ever had that dream himself, he never revealed...
...tolendas (Mardi Gras) with fitting abandon. Ahead were 40 days of fasting & prayer, but for Fat Tuesday the Rio Guayas had yielded many fish to be eaten; there were many casks full of vino tinto to be drunk; on almost every corner in bustling Guayaquil were vendors with carts laden with confetti, streamers and chizguetes (perfume squirters).* President Baquerizo Moreno had given his own granddaughter, Senorita Rosa Piedad Baquerizo, to be Queen of Carnival. Let the people be gay. Was not that Liberal leader and troublemaker, Commandante Ildefonso Mendoza, under arrest? Above all, was not Ecuador the only country...
...Laden and satisfied, with clear streams cooling my flesh...