Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gate. The crowd surged to hold him back. It was then, says Sheriff Adkins, that he started discharging, not his bullet pistol, but his tear gas gun. He and Marion, N. C., were unfamiliar with this weapon, about the size and shape of a large flashlight. He got a lot of tear gas in his own face. The crowd recoiled. An old man reached the Sheriff and belabored him with a stick. While grappling this assailant, who later died, Sheriff Adkins says he heard his deputies start shooting their real guns. The crowd fled shrieking down the street...
...advocated extreme measures outside the law, but--well there are a lot of Socialists to whom a generous treatment of water would do a world of visible good. --Cambridge Evening Journal...
...Walter C. White, 53, Coca-Cola director, longtime motor maker, who last year sold some $47,000,000 worth of White trucks and buses; of an internal hemorrhage, after an automobile accident; at Cleveland. Driving to work in a Stutz, he carromed into another car, hurtled into a vacant lot, fractured his right hip and leg. Out of the relics of his father's White Sewing Machine Co. grew White Motor Co., first manufacturing steam cars. Since 1921 he had been the company's president. During the War he was one of a committee to supervise...
...Peoria, Ill., a drugstore advertised dollar bills on sale at 89c each. Four hours elapsed, many saw, passed by. A Scotch barber, on his way to church, entered, bought the lot...
...like your attitude," he said, or at least so his interpreter said he said. "You Americans like the big risks. You burn the candle at both ends and at the middle. Vive l'Amerique!" He said a lot more too about what were going to be the winning football teams of the country, this fall, but that will be saved for tomorrow and subsequent Saturdays...