Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next both pickaxmen whanged the "non-postponable annuities.'' a rock which loomed huge when France declared that the Young Plan must be preserved intact and that what was "non-postponable'' in the specific language of the Young Plan must be paid to France and kept...
Fragments remaining to be cracked after this big rock was split were...
...Huntsville, Ala., when the Negroes, aged from 14 to 21, boarded the train, pitched out five of the young women's companions, knocked the other two unconscious. Then, the girls said, they were raped. Their assailants were surrounded, overcome by a posse when the train reached Paint Rock, Ala. Within two weeks and two days of the arrest, three juries returned a verdict of guilty against eight of the Negroes. They were sentenced to death in the electric chair on July 10. A mistrial was ordered for the youngest. Throughout the trials, 1,000 National Guardsmen were held...
...street and becoming involved in theological argument, became so annoyed that he promised to perform a miracle: he would cause the Garden of Eden to be transported wherever the Anglican parson wished, at precisely 11:30 the following night. Next evening they met; the parson chose Bass Rock, a little island some 20 miles away; Father Malachy prayed; the deed was done...
...Trust Co. in honor of the U. S. Ambassador to Germany. There he chatted with his friend Thomas William Lament of the rival House of Morgan and a collection of bank presidents. Having lunched well, he remarked that it was "a fine day for golf," and went to Piping Rock Club which he helped to found years ago on Long Island's smart North Shore. There he played against his daughter, Mrs. Richard Brown West Hall, whose husband, a member of Winthrop, Mitchell & Co., was at his office. Then he went to his Oyster Bay home. Jovial, hungry...