Word: rife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manner necessary." By this time Havana was becoming slowly paralyzed by the growth of a series of strikes which began last week among bus drivers, spread to waterfront workers, slaughterhouse and market men, newspaper staffs, telegraphers, railway employes and the staffs of Havana's best hotels. Suspicion was rife that the Government, fearing Mediator Welles was about to exact the resignation of President Machado. had sent agents provocateurs to foment the original strikes, thinking that a little trouble would give Dictator Machado an excuse to order out the Army and fight to keep his power. Day after...
...spirit of the Ku Klux Klan is still rife in the West. Some few weeks ago, fourteen students of the University of Oklahoma administered a flogging in a student editor for having written an article "reflecting upon the traditions of the school which they were sworn to uphold." Accoutered in black hoods, they entered the editor's room at midnight, carried him off three miles into the country in his pajamas, with the thermometer standing at seventeen below, gave him ten lashes with a three quarters inch rope, and let him walk home. For ten days, the University officials investigated...
These tales of terror, thirty-six pages long if you paid sixpence, seventy if a shilling, were on everything from a "Shocking Instance of Arabian Jealousy" to "The Cross of Christ," all rife with much the same sort of atmosphere, thrills and shocks. Most of them had castles with ghostly portrait galleries, musty, deserted wings where mysterious manuscripts telling of some "awful" murder or horrible deed were discovered. The heroine is beautiful, but elusive. "Her mind is . . . like a jewel contained in a most beautiful casket." The hero is a brunette; and like the protagonists in Horatio Alger stories...
...Duller but more important than the seating bicker were the sidelights of the Wet v. Dry struggle. Many of Chicago's saloons had been closed or had closed voluntarily for the duration of the convention, but the dampness of anti-Prohibition agitation was rife...
...Savage Rhythm. Nowadays it is hard to tell what the once happy-go-lucky Producer John Golden is going to serve up next. The scene of his latest presentation is laid in the Mississippi swamps, where Playwrights Harry Hamilton and Norman Foster would have you believe voodooism is still rife. Savage Rhythm has to do with a black girl named Miss Orchid, who has come home from a big theatrical success on Broadway. The Negro she chooses happens to be one her Sister Florabel is also fond of. Thereupon Florabel picks another man, an unfortunate choice because the other...