Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evidence was then submitted to the court to prove that Birdman Staggs inveterately smoked Camels. He was found guilty & Camel-smoking Staggs was ordered to furnish each member of the court with a pack of Old Golds. C. BRINE...
...Sunday, the 26th Anniversary of the Revolution of 1911 by which Chinese overthrew the Manchu Dynasty. All last week the muddy highway from Nanking, China's capital, to Shanghai was crowded and at times choked with tractors dragging heavy artillery, huge motor trucks wallowing forward with munitions, pack trains of heavily-loaded beasts and column after column of Chinese soldiers slogging and sloshing forward. By Tuesday morning the offensive had yet to begin, and Chinese learned that the Premier had been obliged on Sunday to hand down sentences of death to officers guilty of "cowardice and military blunders...
What Franklin Roosevelt saw, as he drove in an open car along the pack-jammed waterfront, was part of the 16 mi. highway that shoots north along the sandy shore past the 1933 Fairsite, Soldier Field, Field Museum and Grant Park, juts first right then left and north again to cross the Chicago River and the Ogden Slip with the Tribune Tower looming high on the left,* keeps on to wind around swank Gold Coast's apartments and the Drake Hotel, then north once more on the express highway of Lake Shore Drive. It was at the Chicago River...
...jail because he: 1) told two undertakers and a minister that his grandmother was dead, made funeral arrangements, borrowed money- to be paid back from the insurance; 2) told Mrs. Emma Appleby that his grandmother and niece were dead on Maryland's Eastern Shore, asked her to pack up and go with him to take charge of double funeral arrangements, swiped her baggage...
...October choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club. For the most part it covers the story as narrated in his previous writings, with some addition of philosophical and anecdotal material. The author tells, for example, how he spurred a subject to guess every card right in the pack of 25 by betting him $100 on each card. He also confesses that...