Word: mop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letters describe the body variously as silver and orange, orchid and light green; its shape is depicted, by comparison, as a mop handle, a boy's kite, a pop bottle, or, most commonly, a sky rocket...
...McKeown's defeat was that his successor is likely to be unique among House characters in the next Congress. Winner of the Democratic nomination was Judge "P. L." Gassaway whose first name is, though few Oklahomans know it, Percy. Judge Gassaway has piercing black eyes and a mop of flowing black hair, wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat, black tie, wing collar, black suit and high-heeled black cowboy boots. He was never a cowboy. He comes from Coalgate in Coal County, is the son of a missionary to the Indians and is famed for his peculiar behavior...
...destroyed pamphlets and papers. A pleased and approving populace looked on from a safe distance. Five minutes after the raiders left police arrived on the scene to clean up. One Communist meeting place after another was similarly visited by the "vigilantes." In each case police arrived immediately afterward to mop up. Police arrested over 300 men and women found in Communist quarters. Of the first no tried, five proved to be aliens without proper admission papers or with criminal records, were sent to Angel Island for deportation. Some 20 U. S. citizens with criminal records were sentenced to jail...
Laaaand-sly-trd si-lx. Ther-mop-puileye nuth-thing...
...instead?" Psalm-singing Daniel Drew, credited with inventing "watered stock" (cattle made artificially thirsty, then, to increase their weight, given all the water they could drink just before being sold), had other tricks up his sleeve. One of them: "Old Daniel pulled out his proverbial red bandanna handkerchief to mop his brow before sitting down with some fellow speculators. A slip of paper bearing a 'point,' or tip, fell to the floor; a bystander put his foot on it. As Drew left, apparently not noticing the incident, the others pounced upon the piece of paper, which proved...