Word: previously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time this year's municipal primaries rolled around, a rightist revolt was in the air. Mayor Dore sought re-election backed again by rough and ruddy Boss Beck and the A. F. of L.'s Lieut.-Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers, onetime jazzband leader who had enlivened previous candidacies with promises of hostesses on owl street cars and flower pots on fire hydrants, ran with the backing of the C. I. O., the organized unemployed and the left-wing Washington Commonwealth Federation. Councilman Langlie's candidacy was based on the belief that the electorate was fed up with...
...story is told in the person of Bayard. As the scene opens, he is a boy of twelve, and the style is juvenile. As the novel progresses, the style becomes more mature, and the final result is the rich and colorful prose characteristic of Faulkner's previous works. This book should take its place as a worthy successor to Absalom, Absalom...
Weight, speed, endurance and previous experience necessarily count in this first game of the season. The Cantabs, at the end of their season, will have all of these. An International match, the game on the 26th in the Stadium will have 45-minute halves! Since there are no time-outs and no substitutions in rugby, the Crimson will have to field fifteen men who are fast, who know the game well, and are able to take...
...Hialeah Park, before the race, War Admiral (whose arrival in Miami two months ago caused more excitement than that of any previous visitor except the President of the U. S.), was signed up for the movies. The 20,000 spectators, most of whom had come primarily to see War Admiral in his first big race as a four-year-old, were not disappointed. Oldsters for a moment thought they were watching Big Red, as War Admiral, imitating his famed sire, delayed the race by his shameful behavior at the starting gate, then flashed to the front in the first furlong...
...When they had used their no sticks of dynamite, they blasted with loose black powder. On the eleventh day, just after lunch, a cheer went up from the 100 Farleyites who had gathered to watch. For Spotty's spotted body had been reached, thinned by nearly half its previous weight, but still alive & sound...