Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They stumbled through alleys and courts littered with tin cans, gritty with cinders and broken glass, past tar-paper shacks and sagging frame and brick houses where rents ranged from $12 to $30 a month. They ducked under clothes drying on lines strung across the alleys. A policeman waved a hand at the rows of backyard privies: "We found a man frozen to death in one of these toilets last winter," he told them casually...
...enchanted voyage began. A fuel line broke and the Pasado took a whole day to clear San Pedro. Just past the breakwater, the engine coughed and quit; it took another hour to fix it. The old tub pitched with a horrible intensity and all the passengers were sick long before she got under way again. Soon the toilets backed up and floated the luggage. The second day out the lone shower was turned off-there was a water shortage-and nobody had a bath for the rest of the voyage. Nobody, for that matter, bothered to take off his clothing...
...been our custom in past years to foretell of the future for this glorious event, particularly with respect to the $5000 feature race, the Damon Runyon Memorial. In these troubled times, however, all is flux, and we have seen fit to substitute for our predications the following document...
...first three doubles pairs of Ager and Bullard, Ames and Hughes, and Robb and Dave Key will probably be playing this afternoon. In the past three matches the score was so high in favor of the Crimson that Barnaby was able to use some of his younger men in the late doubles, but against Cornell such an op-doubles, but against Cornell such an opportunity will probably not present itself...
...CRIMSON clockers have ben at the track daily this past week to check the times of the starters. The field as a whole shows good conformation, especially around the fetlocks. The track is fast and there is no telling what is liable to happen. One veteran fan commented, "With the form I have seem around here this week I would hate to have to make a choice...