Word: prick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Political circles in Berlin predicted an era of political calm, but many are the thorns that will prick the new dictatorship when it begins to function. At all events the Government seems safe until the next general elections, which should take place next Summer...
...formation of a permanent association, for an attempt to take the tariff out of politics, for supporting the present tariff act, the Western Tariff Association met in Denver. The association's object is to prick, when necessary, the sides of President, Congress and Tariff Commission with the spur of Western tariff desires. Mr. Coolidge wrote to the association (see page 1), sending the assurance of his "sympathetic interest...
...zone, a tropical storm broke just before the eclipse, ruining the prospect. In New York, where the maximum eclispe was 46%, weather conditions were excellent, and many photographs and observations were made by home-staying scientists, and laymen with the usual paraphernalia of smoked glass, dark spectacles and pin-prick holes...
...marks a month upon all bachelors over the age of 18. Young men were to be allowed an abatement of 25% if they were between the ages of 18 and 23. Those with little or no income were to be given immunity. The Federal authorities however, were quick to prick this Repelen bubble. They declared that the question of income tax was a matter for the Federal Finance Ministry in Berlin...
...know but when we know it, we see it as it is, and who wants to see it as it is! No, a thousand times no let us rather aid the soap bubbles that float from CRIMSON'S pipe to soar into infinity, rather than, stealing Lampy's soapel prick them. OLIN DOWS...