Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bravo Citizen D. J. Foss! . . . Down with undertakers, and their ballyhooing, cemetery lot speculation, sumptuous undertaking palaces, etc.! What do the dead care for a real mahogany casket or a metal one? Aprés moi-I don't give a damn...
...full six-year term as Senator from Nebraska, Richard Charles Hunter said mournfully: "I was a Senator, though, even if I wasn't sworn in. The sergeant-at-arms showed me my seat early in December. It had my name on it. I did a lot of work while I was here. I must have handled as many as 150 cases for veterans and others...
...that the kidnapping was planned and executed by a gang of five persons. . . . Furthermore, the defense will prove that the child was carried from its nursery down the stairs of the house and out of a door of the house, rather than down the ladder. ... I have an awful lot of questions to ask Col. Lindbergh, an awful lot of things I want answers...
...Daimler-Bentz there was high glee last week as Nazi automotive engineers chuckled over observations made in Manhattan by President William B. Stout of the American Society of Automotive Engineers. "The best way to make the present day car ride easy," declared President Stout, "is to put a lot of weight in the back end. Four hundred pounds of cement in the back seat helps a lot, but if we can put the engine back there and save the weight of the cement we get a better ride, better traction and much more room available in the body...
...Alec divides his time between his country estate and the pleasures of town. He is married to a beautiful wife, but they are just pals. Alec not only has good looks (he was called "Adonis" at Yale but was somehow popular), but also a fatal charm. He knows a lot about animals, rides like a centaur, drives like a state policeman. He did his bit in the War ("We had slept with our windows open that hard winter and had had only one blanket apiece"). And he is almost as hard a drinker as a Dashiell Hammett hero...