Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor Prudence could not stand the rigors of the New England winter. The broken-hearted Caution survived harm, however, and realizing his duty to posterity he married an Indian miss named Did-You-Put-Out. That-Camp-fire. And to their first-born son, a direct ancestor of mine, they gave at his mother's insistence, an Indian name. He was called Keep-Your-Powder-Dry Forecast...
...crowed weren't bad enough in any sizes or shapes. And by the way in what shape do you prefer your crowd? I prefer mine as select as possible. Say three. For three's crowd. Or drunk. You see I'm easily pleased. What crowd isn't drunk with something, if it's only a sense of its own power...
...Canton to commit the murder. One Louis Mazer, Canton bootlegger and an overlord of the Canton "jungle" was arrested. Also one Ben Rudner, hardware dealer of nearby Massillon, Ohio. But the key man of the mystery was missing, Patrick Eugene McDermott, ex-convict, member of a family of mine-laborers in Nanty Glo, Pa. He was believed to have been in the shooting gang. He was known to be hiding somewhere, supported and protected by his criminal employers...
...outbreak of the organized general strike was the gravest domestic event in my lifetime. If it had succeeded Parliamentary Government would have been at an end. It was an action of mine which made this a ground of controversy in the Liberal ranks and it was with as much distress as surprise that I found that my public declarations were met with a challenge from a quarter [the Lloyd Georgians] which it was impossible for me to disregard...
...said: "Success simply calls for hard work and devotion to your business, day and night." He grew old in that one trite and silly sentence. Looking back at youth, he could only see the smolder of coke fires, hear the tinny strum of a trolley going into a mine, hard work, devotion. No one can say that Frick did not work hard. No one can say that he might not have been successful with no luck at all. But the fact remains that, in the panic of 1873, a lot of Pennsylvania bituminous coal lands were put up for sale...