Word: namelessness
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...only ditched the United States but he has drained the whole world." The alliteration was later expanded but Senator Harrison is credited with giving the phrase its first political currency. He took it from a constituent's letter. The letter has been lost; the constituent remains nameless...
Under the hard ground of the cemetery at North Creek, N. Y., last week was buried a swart, nameless giant who died in a blaze of gunfire among the snowbound mountains of Essex County earlier this month.. Police and U. S. Army records had failed to identify him. But inhabitants of the vicinity had not ceased to wonder and talk about the prodigious "wild man of the Adirondacks" and the terror he spread in the three days it took to catch...
...author of Sanctuary and The Sound and the Fury, it was limited to 400 copies, each signed by the author, has already been sold out. The story, told by an old mail-carrier of the Southwest with many false starts and digressions, relates the sad fate of a nameless woman. Married to a rich husband in the East, with two children, she left them to come out to the desert to nurse her "lunger" lover, ten years younger than herself. He recovered and one fine day up & left her. She stayed on in the lonely cabin by herself, waiting...
Without anyone's having done anything Cruiser A began to slide down the ways-nameless. It was time for HINDENBURG to seize that bottle of wine and hurl it with all his strength, hoping to hit-christen the now fast moving Cruiser...
...this rhythm, the snaking of parties of gayly costumed boys and girls, single or double file. All on foot?and stepping. Roustabouts from the docks, cane cutters from the fields, women from the tenderloin, ragamuffins from everywhere, all swinging to the beat of that endless tune, to me then nameless. Groups of gleeful boy volunteers furnish the music. Home-made instruments?bongos of nail kegs or other kegs with ends knocked out or of hollowed log chunks, manacas, claves of all descriptions, some attached to frying pans. Swinging hilarity and frenzy, all having a glorious time, with rum and without...