Word: live
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flood that has just ruined them. What they most resent is the attitude, apparently prevailing at Washington, that the flood of 1927, while a terribly regrettable incident, is really over and that there is not much use crying over spilled water. In Louisiana, the flood is still a very live issue; nor is there any tendency to refer to it in the past tense...
...replies that "the very fact that statehood is absolutely out of the question at the present time is so much more reason why we should aspire to it the harder." As for the race question, the Governor has said: "There is less race prejudice in Hawaii than elsewhere. We live amicably and recognize that our problems are common problems rather than that they belong to any single race...
...struggle between the Wets and the Drys is brutal beyond words. It is the women who give the Drys their ridiculous strength. 'Not caught, not guilty,' say the poachers. That is life in America. By the millions they live as poachers and contrabanders in an atmosphere infected with puritanism, professional spies and amateur informers...
...White Plains, N. Y., one Paul Mateyoke, 30, was surrounded by angry neighbors, turned over to the police, for ejecting Susie Mateyoke, 75, his mother, from his house and making her live in the chicken coop for two weeks; also for allegedly breaking her left arm with a hurled stone, for blacking her left eye and breaking her left eardrum with right hand punches...
...Authors have previously collaborated on two books?a History of the United States and American Citizenship. Previous to this collaboration, Author Charles A. Beard produced many works on history and jurisprudence, American and foreign. The Beards live at New Milford, Conn., whither they retired after Dr. Beard had professed politics with distinction at Columbia University, after Mrs. Beard had made a name as suffrage and labor student. Students now of civilization, their work is a potent civilizer...