Word: night
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first big bandit on Hallowe'en, 1919. It was in the mountainous Capois region of Haiti. Charlemagne Peralte was the name of a blackamoor chief who was leading 700 rowdy followers to sack Grande Riviere. Hanneken, then a sergeant, took a force of 21 men through the witching night. They rushed the camp, killed Charlemagne and nine of his ruffians, escaped to cover. The feat broke the backbone of Haitian banditry. Hanneken got the Congressional Medal of Honor...
Near sandy Henryetta, Okla. (pop. 6,000), in the Old Indian Territory, Jackson Barnett, full-blooded Creek, worked his 160-acre allotment by day, rested his tired bones in a not-too-clean four-room shack by night. He was old#&151;60, maybe 70-he didn't know exactly. He was poor. He was illiterate. But he was a Govern-ment ward and he had learned that, so long as he stayed a good Indian, the Govern-ment would provide...
...interested in oil and asked him to go for a ride. It was getting dark; he did not want to go. But he was a good-natured Indian who could not say no. He grinned and went. They drove to Okemeh, 18 miles away, and there spent the night. She was not a bad looking white woman...
...evidence grew obvious. There was a deadlock between the connoisseur, foiled 'by the need to express nebulous impressions in concrete language, and the shrewd lawyer, facetiously tilting and impaling but hampered by lack of the factual material of law. Sir Joseph grew lugubrious, exasperated, weary. Said he: "Last night I did not get a wink of sleep. All night my mind was filled with images of pictures going round and round. How long is this sort of thing going to last, do you think...
...Harvard Dramatic Club, at its meeting last night, elected a new staff of officers. The following were elected: President, Bernard David Hanighen '30 of Omaha. Nebr.; vice-president, Gerald Wallace Harrington '30, of Mattapoisett; secretary. Edward Trumbull Batchelder '30, of Salem. These three officers, together with Richard Hildreth Thompson '30, of Marblehead and Hollis Guptill Gerrish '30, of Somerville, will compose the executive board...