Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave the well-fed young man in two overcoats a thin tut loyal cheer. Cried a quavering old man: "Ay, ay, the dear lad's a champion!"?perhaps referring to the fact that the Prince's radio appeal at Christmastide brought in some $2,000,000 for mine-relief...
...plucky statement. The men would do anything for the Captain, and the Captain would do anything for the men, and the men would do anything for the men, and the Captain would do anything for the Captain. There, that about cleans that up! And what a relief, you may be sure...
...patient jumped up and struck the doctor on the head with an iron bolt done up in cloth. He then rushed out leaving his overcoat. He is described as a man about 30, 5 feet 6, weight 150, with light brown hair. Dr. Kovacs was taken to the Haymarket Relief Hospital in our Ambulance and treated for 2 lacerated wounds of the scalp. The man wanted left the office with a bandage on his left ankle and his name is thought to be John King...
Heflin, Klu Klux Klan, free silver, William Jennings Bryan, prohibition, woman suffrage, McNary-Haugen farm relief may all be classed as attempts at reform. They have shared in common: lofty purpose, great zeal, and not a little oratory. Senator Oscar W. Underwood was opposed to each and every one of them. He saw something dangerous in them all. He felt that their purposes were not worth their methods. He was a complete Jeffersonian, and a quiet one at that...
...orgiastic massacres of Judas and Pontius Pilate in effigy. Author Seabrook records these matters with a humble sympathy rather than the traditional amused condescension. His humor he reserves for black naivetés, his condescension for white stupidities. The result is a thoroughly fascinating Voodoo document, interspersed with comic relief. The "Magic Island" is Haiti, four days off the Atlantic Coast...