Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter how diligent and honest the national moneymen may be, only part of the total actually spent will be reported to Congress. Vast wads of local money, to be spent not literally in buying votes but in paying precinct "workers" to round up their families and friends, pass from , unnamed donors to taciturn precinct bosses. This money is meant, usually, to ensure the election of local candidates. The national candidates benefit simultaneously but the money does not show on their books...
Great was the regret of short, round-faced Boss O'Connell when the spatter of bullets broke the peace of his demesne on an early morning of last week. Into the heart of "The Gut" had marched Prohibition Agents Irving Washburn and Wilfred Grisson, bent on arrest. Suddenly, a group swarmed from an open doorway. Guns were drawn, fired. Agent Grisson escaped uninjured. But Agent Washburn fell to the pavement, mortally wounded...
...elderly and sweetly commanding lady appeared, last week in the Zoological Gardens at Bristol, where a Conservative party picnic was being held. When reporters crowded round, the lady pinked with amiability. "I was wondering as I entered the Zoo," she said, "in what category I really belong. I am too old to play with the monkeys or quack with the ducks. I do not want to be enrolled among the geese, and still less among the boars. I wonder where I belong...
...obscure little Maribor, on the Jugoslav frontier lives Schoolteacher Polsjchak. Word went round that he knew strange things; that he had studied tuberculosis and cancer; that he had even cured neighbor Kretschnik's wife who was about to die of cancer, and that other one, old man Melchnikoff, who had a burning in his side like fire...
James Joseph Tunney, world's heavyweight champion, will meet Thomas Heeney, challenger, in a 15-round boxing match at the Yankee Stadium, the Bronx, N. Y., on the evening of July 26, under the auspices of George L. Rickard...