Word: recounts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caught Morgan with 13 dead ducks, Brown with 16; but He-Man Gable had been staggering along with 25 (21 above the legal limit). Nonsense, Gable huffed, he had not shot a single duck. After consultation with an M-G-M lawyer, the warden decided that, on recount, Gable had really shot only six. With everybody (except the ducks) feeling better, the party was fined $200 apiece...
...Recount. In Waukesha, Wis., indignant Audrey Shefloe sued for divorce; she had discovered, said she, that her husband had two fingers missing on each hand...
Said Woop last night when conceded the election. "Recount? 'Smecount...
Only three newcomers to the notorious politics of Cambridge's Poon Ring survived elections yesterday, as cigarsmoking, derby-hatted Clemens B. Woop VI tightened his grasp over the lives of the Bow Street slum sections. In the traditional first-thirteenth in November recount, Woop carried all two electoral districts, dropping only 23 to his pawky opponent...
With traditional contempt for the churlish mouthings of eynies, Harvard undergraduates have energetically launched the Food Relief Committee on its current drive to aid European students. Last night a brief recount of the contributions to date showed that the College program was rumbling down the alley with increasing speed, surpassing in some houses the amazing $4.60 average donation of last summer's campaign. With the exception of one well-padded hardease who responded to the solicitor's pleas with a zine penny, students have expressed sincere concern and admirable generosity towards the tubercular scholars of Greece and China. However...