Word: mudguard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., June 7--For the second time in eight days, the academic quiet of New Haven was shattered today by flying botties. This time, however, the only casualty was a bent automobile, mudguard, and no arrests were made...
...premonitory rumble of trouble issued from the throat of Sheriff George P. Nimmo, summoned from a neighboring county to direct activities in Passaic, when he stood on the mudguard of a red police-car reading a paper to a group of picketers. That paper was a copy of the Riot Act, which provides that any assemblage that hears this act read to them must disperse within an hour or be liable to arrest. Sheriff Nimmo, a fox-faced man in spectacles, read in a loud voice. The crowd began to move away; some did not move fast enough, were stimulated...