Word: preventives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...religions, when their power is equal to their holy malice, is that of a Persecutor. When they can no longer use, the faggots and screws they use franchises and senators. I have three special aversions. They are Meddlesome Methodists, edifying editors and righteous realtors. No law shall ever prevent me from eating and drinking when and whatever I please. The old Romans put their amphitheatres to the right uses when they cried Ad leones Christians! . . . These Christians have caused more human wretchedness, misery and bloodshed, than any plague, pestilence or famine. - - - -! †HENRY J. WEEKS...
...Passed the Box bill to prevent naturalized Canadians and Mexicans from commuting to work daily across the U. S. borders...
...went on to say that he thought the situation created by the publication of the issue was one which the House Plan would remedy. "The action of the Lampoon editors shows that the men are in need of more mature minds in their midst, to prevent them from repeating things of that nature. The trustees who threatened to resign are in the right, for as overseers they can force the issue and make the Lampoon retract...
...Referring to a disturbance of last week at the Nine-Mile-Point Colliery, in Monmouthshire, Wales. There union miners sought to prevent four "blacklegs" (scabs) from working, but were dispersed by a police charge and clubbing. The incident was as far as possible from being typical, since nearly all the 200,000 unemployed miners are not on strike, but literally begging for work from employers who claim that overproduction and German competition make it unprofitable to operate their mines...
...Governor of Bombay, Sir Frederick Sykes, son-in-law of the late, great Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, ordered out all available troops and armored cars, but these forces could not do more than check the rioting in restricted areas, though they did prevent the killing of even a single occidental civilian...