Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honorable and friendly relations with our sister nations throughout the world. Disasters visiting certain of our states have touched the heart of a sympathetic Nation, which has responded generously out of its abundance. In continuing to remember those in affliction we should rejoice in our ability to give them relief...
Then "Mayor" Holmes came in from breakfast, "Mayor" Negley grinned with relief. He flourished his injunction. "Mayor" Holmes grinned. Joking, giggling, each "mayor" drew a chair up to the mayoral desk and sat down...
...mingled with gasps met this display. Flappers sat with blanched faces; bewhiskered Hebrews rocked back and forth with supressed excitement; Ukrainians, more pallid than ever, glanced nervously through their narrow eyes. Maitre Torres, aiming at a chair, pulled the trigger?there was a dull click, followed by sighs of relief. He was attempting to prove that M. Schwartzbard could not have shot Simon Petlura as he lay , prone on the ground...
...Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas charged the Association with responsibility for defeat of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. The bankers denied it and refused Senator Caraway permission to further address the convention...
...group, smiles of relief playing on their grim visages, cantered up to an automobile. Nobody was in it. "But they cannot be far away," thought the horsemen. Then, one, with a piercing exclamation of horror, pointed to the back seat of the car on which were scattered the mangled remains of two pet dogs...