Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parkers,* arrayed in jockey caps, white satin blouses, black satin pants. When these and some 1,500 other women reached Omaha three weeks ago for the 19th annual tournament of the Women's International Bowling Congress Inc., the oldest competitor, Omaha's own 67-year-old Mrs. Nevada Helen Robertson Tillson, opened play by cutting a crepe-paper ribbon, then whipped the lopsided ball she has used for 33 years down the alley for a strike...
...good at persuading juries to acquit under-worldlings. When he is denounced by an outraged judge and his brother (Owen Davis Jr.) is killed, Dix changes his ways, joins the Department of Justice as a special investigator. The gangsters, having stolen a large amount of gold bullion, buy a Nevada ranch with an abandoned mine ship out the gold as newly-produced metal. Matters are made harder for Dix when he becomes enamored of the ringleader's sister (Margaret Callahan), but he is helped when the "gold miners" start shooting each other...
...Senators," intoned Nevada's Pittman, "how say you? Is the respondent, Halsted L. Ritter, guilty or not guilty? The clerk will call the roll...
...house on 38th Street in Georgetown, promptly rented it. Disliking solitude, he "thought it would be nice for some of the boys to live with me during the hot spell." Six Representatives moved in with Lobbyist Smith: Kentucky's Cary, Idaho's Clark, Ohio's Fiesinger, Nevada's Scrugham, New Jersey's Sutphin, Indiana's Pettengill. Lobbyist Smith never told "the boys" of his work, because "several of them knew." On the piazza of their home, they rocked back & forth, clucked to each other about Reclamation, the Townsend Plan, other legislation...
...West he is on more questionable ground. Of the 18 states in that area, the Gallup poll classifies Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota, Missouri, with 93 electoral votes, as "Definitely Democratic." Thus Mr. Hurja might compose a table...