Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four-thirty p. m. one day last week was a zero hour. When it came, 130 Federal Prohibition agents simultaneously launched 35 assaults along a 200-mile liquor front in the sea angle from the tip of Long Island to Atlantic City. Down they bore on hotels, road houses, garages, a Manhattan office building, a New Jersey mansion. Captured were 32 prisoners, hundreds of cases of good liquor. In mid-Manhattan a detachment entered a businesslike office where directors of a colossal liquor syndicate, said to have a monopoly of the metropolitan supply, were known to meet, plan operations, declare...
...University of Vermont, where I also graduated a few years later; I knew his brothers who were good fellows, but John Dewey, while a brilliant man in his line I am sure, does not appeal to me after the stand he took in the Sacco-Vanzetti matter not long ago, and he with a lot of other theoretical high brows, Heywood Broun, for instance, always wanting some Red or Pink communist to be allowed to run loose, defame the government. . . . I cannot understand a man born and raised in a New England state like Vermont where there are no such...
...muttering that here was another Sacco-Vanzetti case, had less to say. Melodrama was the introduction. A bulky something was wheeled in before the jury. The covering was whipped off to reveal a wax dummy of the slaughtered man, staring, pallid. Madness brought an interval. When a juryman, brooding long on hell and damnation, broke down and was carried yelling to a padded cell, Judge Victor Maurice Barnhill declared a mistrial. Mildness seemed the new motive. When the Aderholt trial reopened with 12 sane jurors, the prosecution had lessened the indictments to second-degree, had quashed all charges against nine...
...Insurgents with almost the entire Democratic army, executed a quick flank movement. With Freebooter Norris taking command and uttering blood-thirsty cries, the opposition Senator-soldiers marched toward the farm lowlands. In a fierce three-hour assault they pushed headlong into this neutral territory, laying behind them a long pipe line stretching from the U. S. Treasury marked Export Debenture...
...That his time has been spent in a worthy cause no one who has had the simplest interstate experience with its majesty the law can deny. That he has performed it with such signal distinction cannot fail to be a satisfaction to the University which he has served so long...