Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Relatives: Machine guns, search lights and fire-hoses were added to the defenses at Charlestown Prison, which none might "approach closer than 1,000 feet. Relatives of the prisoners, however, were admitted to the death house. To reach the death cells they had to pass the electric chair. Prisoner Vanzetti was allowed to leave his cell and embrace his sister, Luigia whom he had not seen for 19 years. Prisoner Sacco saw his wife and 14-year-old son, Dante, to whom he later wrote a farewell letter telling him to comfort his mother, fight the rich, help the weak...
...know by name, goes vacationing to a winter sports colony in Switzerland, in order to be near the lady of his love-at-first-sight. There a thousand trifling circumstances force it upon his uneasy conscience that a headwaiter, though the apogee of elegance, is hardly high enough to reach for an heiress. Humbled for, the first time, he trudges back to his dining-room. There she discovers him. Being a democratic U. S. girl, the heiress graciously trots into the kitchen after the dejected one, inquires "What does it matter, anyway?" smoothes the lofty complacency that has suffered...
Floods came, winds blew and beat upon the golfers at Port-marnock, Ireland. Players were wrenched from their stances, so fierce was the gale sweeping in from the Irish Sea. The luncheon tent was blown away in large ribbons. Ernest Whitcombe, one of the best, took five shots to reach one green in the teeth of the tumult. Larry Nabholtz, U. S. professional, "picked up" after a morning round of 91. Wild Bill Melhorn, only other U. S. entrant, took an excellent 82 on the final round but his aggregate was 324, out of the running. Only three players broke...
...controls the short and profitable Pittsburgh & West Virginia; wants to buy control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, control of which John D. Rockefeller Sr. recently sold to the N. Y. C., B. & O. and Nickel Plate. Promoter Taplin would also control the Western Maryland over which he would reach tidewater with Pittsburgh coal and Great Lakes grain and iron...
...Manhattan one R. C. Walton, newly arrived from England, inquired how best to reach Coney Island, famed pleasure beach. When advised to take the subway, he became elated at the prospect of a good walk...