Word: nails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company shall pay employes their full wages for the period they were on strike; 2) The company must sign a "collectivist contract" with the men, within 45 days, giving them a voice in the administration of the railway. It was this demand which Manager Holmes had fought tooth & nail until overawed by the Chief Magistrate of the Republic...
...HOOVER. The accompanying story implied that the President had ordered the Marine guard of 40 men from the abandoned Mayflower to his Shenandoah National Park camp site to build his Lodge, repair roads. Quickly the President despatched Secretary George Akerson to the Press to make this announcement: "Every nail and every board in the President's camp was paid for by Herbert Hoover out of his own pocket. . . . The roads to the camp were built by the State of Virginia. . . . The Marine detail is the usual presidential guard. ... Its only task is to keep its own quarters in condition...
...wife, a large, strapping woman." He pushed her aside, dodged her chauffeur, one William Kiefer (named as co-respondent in Mr. Revell's suit for divorce) and sprinted. Near 5th Avenue a burly man caught and held him. Mrs. Revell caught up and renewed her attack with nail, fist, tooth, and then had Mr. Revell arrested for assault. Said he: "The incident was a stunt on the part of my wife to embarrass me and carry out her threat to not only ruin my reputation but break...
...book counter, picked out The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. Dell; also four of prolific Edgar Wallace's blood-drenched thrillers: The Flying Fifty-Five, The Missing Million, Room 13 and A King by Night. She bought a thrip'ny rubber sponge and a thripiny packet of nail polish...
...Metropolitan Opera House and biting was in the stage directions. But Tenor Tokatyan bit the ear of Baritone Basiola so thoroughly that first-aid had to be performed at the end of the scene. Thereafter, Tenor Tokatyan explained that the unintended ferocity of his bite was caused by a nail which stuck up from his shoe into his foot...