Word: protractedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week idlers in Florida beheld what is now known as "a protracted assassination." The weapon: a smooth steel club with a crook in it and a wooden haft. The assassin: a swart, puss-footed gentleman with a debonair smile, immaculate raiment and merciless accuracy of eye and wrist. He...
Here lies Ooo-Rah, misbegotten child of Wild and Foolish Frenzy, conceived in playfulness, nourished in jest, and brought forth still-born before an expectant world. Bred to thunder forth the fame of wounded heroes stricken on the field of glory, poor Ooo-Rah never wheezed a note. No single...
For Author Newton turned out to be a bookworm of astonishing capacity and superlative digestion, with a most charming literary style of his own to impart the gusto of his protracted feasts. He fell not only to voracious reading, but also to the deeper vice of collecting books for the...
For Mr. Stacpoole's infrmation, the U. S. Government has taken steps to "end this terrible business," at least as far as the territorial waters are concerned. Congress has recently passed an act to prevent the pollution of inland and coastal waters. This act provides for a fine and...
The "third degree" is the name popularly given to the extortion by the police of information from prisoners by means of protracted questioning combined with lack of sleep and starvation. The "first degree" is the arrest, and the "second degree" the taking of a prisoners to a place of confinement...