Word: lengths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...length (about one in the morning) they quieted down, and, I firmly believe, went to sleep. They were the most human-sounding beasts I have ever met! All the grunts, sighs, groans, wheezes, and measured snores of human sleep were reproduced in a generous but exact replica. One snored so persistently that one of our hobo companions woke, swore sleepily, and with a stick rapped the offender into startled wakefulness and silence. Perhaps some of your other subscribers have had similar first-hand experience...
...Brother Gus went into business on their own account. They bought, from Father Claus, one of the Hawaiian plantations which they had remade into an efficient enterprise. Suddenly Father Claus cut off all money for further development. The family row shook the banks of San Francisco, but at length they found the money. When Son Rudolph was 26, he sold the plantation and prepared to retire. He had gratified his ambition. He was then a millionaire...
...last quarter the Bruin Freshmen staged a final bid for a touchdown with a hard-hitting march down half the length of the field, but were held on downs at Harvard's 30-yard line...
There was another Mr. Hoover present -Mr. Ike Hoover, White House majordomo this many a year. Mr. President conferred with Mr. Major Domo. At length he said, "Well, go ahead then." There was a general winking and cocking of the eyes of the press. The ears got ready again, too. Mr. President noticed them and said: "I don't believe in that. I'm not going to talk any more...
...Mayor Harry A. Mackey who was passive for a while, who scorned the idea that municipal extortionists could exist among the police or elsewhere. But at length he ordered a wholesale transfer of the police force. He compared the reports of new and old incumbents of the precincts. On the basis of later Grand Jury reports he suspended from office almost one half of the executive police officers-three out of five inspectors, 18 out of 43 captains. These men had been found "unfit to hold any position in the municipal government." Their bank accounts revealed "unexplained wealth" amounting...