Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking of the Yard, Mr. Bourdon said. "Only Matthews, Stoughton, Divinity and Memorial Halls, were standing then. Oh yes, one other the Peabody Museum was standing in the middle of a huge lot...
...worth of flowers, with thugs and city officials tramping solemnly side by side . . . "Scarface Al" Caponi sitting quietly in the restaurant of his Cicero hotel with machine gun bullets whistling all around him. . . . As King Caponi once said: "It [the Prohibition law] looked like a good opening for a lot of smart young...
...seventh try, Lieut. Dan Kearns and Sergeant Clyde Plank of the Colorado National Guard, soared over. They flew to Silverton, Col., 200 miles from Denver, over crags and chasms no one had ever before crossed. All of Silverton, for four weeks completely snowbound, floundered over to the town baseball lot to see mail, food, newspapers and diphtheria antitoxin drop from the skies into a snowbank. The factory siren kept up a steady shriek. Oldest inhabitants ants shifted their quids to ejaculate. It was not only the first visitor in a month but their first airplane ever-just skimming the housetops...
...Heaven-Tappers are a lot of crooks who draw money from Virginia moonshiners in return for synthetic religion. Their scheme: to invade the domains of the desperate distillers bearing with them the priestly emoluments of a fantastic religious cult; there to prattle assorted mysticisms garnered from better established sects; to work the mountaineers into a frenzy that will persuade them to donate money for the building of a church; then to skip the hills and return to the city bootleggers, with the church fund. Little did they reck that Red Belwyn (Margaret Lawrence), beautiful crookess of the gang, would discover...
...therefore necessary to please each individual and the number of mirrors, glass beads and other trinkets which must be carried is deplored by the white trader or explorer. Furthermore the native's absolute disregard of social status based on property ownership and his perfect satisfaction with his lot makes him impossible as a laborer. In this respect the native of New Guinea furnishes a strong contrast to his industrious neighbor on the Island of Java...