Word: openings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...checker stood next the box and reached in with one hand. Feeling the touch of some clammy thing, a wolf or a corpse perhaps, he screamed "I am bitten," and ran furiously along the pier. A less timid checker then went gingerly up to the box and pried it open. In the bottom of the box, cold and still alive, was scatterbrained John Thoening. He said he had not eaten for several days, that he was very sleepy, that he had not bitten the hand which had been inserted into his box, but had shaken it rather, with friendly intent...
Next morning, the bank of Mayor Lake was found to be not open for business and Mayor Lake was found nowhere in Sanford. Later, the Florida bank examiner's report showed that Mayor Lake's bank owed nearly $1,000,000 and that he had swindled the city of Sanford out of several hundred thousand. A fortnight ago, Mr. Lake aged 62, was sentenced to 14 years of hard labor in the state penitentiary...
...official manifesto General Fukuda declared: "The Chinese show an open stand of belligerency. Therefore, to punish the guilty and uphold the dignity of the Japanese Empire I am obliged to take such drastic measures as I deem necessary...
...High Hatters. Neither very funny nor very exciting, this slangy little mystery farce was wafted quietly into a theatre by a draught from the wings when someone left the stage door open to the lazy mid-spring airs of Broadway. It summarizes the doings of two second story men who become inmates in a boobyhatch so that they can practice their profession without legal interruption...
...Harvard Flying Club has been dowered by entrance into the Hartford races with more publicity than its share during three years of useful activity, such participation is not the peak of the club's achievement during the present year. The value of airplane racing for the college pilot is open to question in the minds of others besides President Angell of Yale, who on Monday, although assigning no reason to his action, forbade Yale undergraduates from entering in any meet for an indefinite length of time...