Word: raked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Autumn is gone, the snow is here. The Vagabond can rake over the fallen leaves of the past season only with mixed emotions. If he has been regular in the performance of his duty in attendance at lectures, if those lectures have shown with their usual degree of luster, he has exhausted the store of his accomplishments. The full blossomed lot of pleasure has not been his during this last stretch of Saturdays. His coup detat, the carefully laid scheme to fly to Michigan, having been uncovered by the Yellow Press, he can reckon little for the credit side...
...Charles Scribner Jr., wife of the Manhattan publisher, summering in Massachusetts, riding her Irish hunter, saw a farm horse, stung by a bee, go dashing away dragging a hay rake. Mrs. Scribner gave chase, followed the runaway up hill and down dale, around curves so sharp that one of them sent the hay rake zooming off by itself. Agile, she caught and subdued the horse...
...primary last spring, is the political "pardner" of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson. Crowe tried to "knife" Judge Swanson in last month's election and "throw" the office to the Democratic candidate. Many another Republican lost out but Judge Swanson prevailed and last week was preparing to rake out Crowe's politico-criminal mess. Instruments ready at hand were some able assistants of Special Prosecutor Frank J. Loesch, the fearless, aging Presbyterian whom Chicago's civilian Crime Commission engaged some months ago to do what State's Attorney Crowe and Mayor Thompson were leaving undone...
...Noble Rake...
...rake" was Lord Charles Mohun, the original of the villain in Thackeray's Henry Esmond. Illustrated from old prints...