Word: ladens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hold on the Progressives having weakened because he followed the " regulars " too closely in the last Congress. At any rate, both Californians, following this first bloom of their candidacies, must pass through a long and hazardous growing season before the ripe fruit of election can hang from their laden boughs...
Said William E. Borah: « The hotbed and noisy rendezvous of lawlessness, of cynical defiance to the Eighteenth Amendment are among those of social standing. . . . The ' red ' sits in his darkly lighted room around his poorly laden table and denounced those provisions of the Constitution placed there to protect property. The ' white' sits in his brilliantly lighted rooms about his richly laden table and defies or denounces the provision of the Constitution placed there in the belief it would protect the home...
...insisted it was time to begin operations. Finally he could put them off no longer. "That night the underworld rejoiced. A damp and fetid night it was ... a dreary, dismal night, hung on the edge of the calendar, where approaching Winter touches the garments of departing Autumn." At dawn laden trucks rolled out of the brewery gates?and prohibition agents snapped them up, arresting all the bootleggers. Weeks later a friend approached the agent who had schemed it all and told him that the bootleggers had him marked for death. "The agent whistled...
...soot-laden white mist of great weight. Owing to the warmth of the ground and the consequent lighter pressure the fog descends from its chilly couch in the skies-that is, when there is no wind to blow it away-and covers the earth until the heat gradually dissipates it. Were it not for the soot, the mist would probably be dissipated by the surface heat as it descended...
...could construct. He was known as an atheist, an anarchist, a nihilist. Then financial troubles drove him to leave his native Florence and live within the confines of a poor little mountain village. Here he became acquainted with the lowly, the humble and those that labor and are heavy laden. Here he opened the four gospels, and with these and the help of a few modern books as his only sources he wrote his Life of Christ. Papini's aim is "a book specially written for those who are outside the Church of Christ; the others, those who have...