Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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(2 of 2) guidance of "Boss" Roger Sullivan, became the heir apparent. "I can't say I deserved Roger Sullivan's mantle," said Brennan, "It just fell to me. . . . The job of boss was a big jackpot and I happened to be the only man around the table...
Senator Borah, oratorically extraordinary gentleman from Idaho, a fortnight ago tramped southward to Augusta, Georgia, heart of the Southern "Dry" belt; there, naturally, made a speech Volsteadian in tone. He deplored "nullification" of the 18th Amendment, did Mr. Borah. Yet, had it not been for the lazy hot sun, many...
There, of late weeks, an alert young man named L. L. Hug has gone from farm to farm, sitting in consultation with each household for two hours apiece, asking pointed questions, taking careful notes. Last week his notes were being tabulated by the department of agricultural economics at Pennsylvania State...
"During the period of American intervention (1917-20) over $7,000,000,000 was spent by Great Britain in the United States. Of that $7,000,000,000 we borrowed $4,000,000,000.and provided an additional $3,000,000,000 from our own independent resources. We spent on the...
The customs men had gone through her boxes quickly and she was free to leave. Most of the other passengers from the Majestic still sat about, perched on trunks or, wearily, on baggage carts, in the salt-smelling cavern of the pier. She moved away, accompanied by a handsome woman...