Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Business has been pretty quiet lately; you know these hour exams cut in quite a lot. But I guess it ought to pick up plenty this week, eh?" It was one of Harvard's best known bootleggers talking, and it seemed as though he had quite...
...much, but then we have to be pretty careful. These -- state cops are pretty bad in Massachusetts. And specially in Boston. Every one of them is a hypocrite; you can't trust them. No, as a matter of fact, I won't say all of them, because just the other week here I met a real white man, but it isn't very often, I can tell...
...making a delivery over across the river; I got out of my car and had a couple of packages under my arm. I didn't see any one around, but all of a sudden a motorcycle cop drove up behind me and says, 'What've you got there?' I saw there wasn't any use arguing so I told him. I said 'O. K. I'm licked'. But he says, 'Wait a minute there, don't go so fast;; let's see what we can do about this. Go ahead back and get in your...
...came back and says 'Got fifty?'. I reached in my pocket and took out a roll and handed him over fifty. 'That just about cleans me', I said. 'You see I'm new at the game, just started last week'. 'Oh, well in that case', he said, 'no one can say I'm a hog; here take ten back. Now run along and make your deliveries; I'll watch your car while you're gone...
...York," he said with a sigh and a rapt look in his face. "I'll say it's a good town. Wish I could get down there. But there is one trouble with New York. There's so much competition. It's terrible. There ought to be a law against...