Word: roundups
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...deplorable miscalculation which resulted in the eventless, wholesale roundup seems to have been caused by the excellence of the bootleggers' product. The army of thirty lumberjacks, who were apparently counted on to repulse the officers, was paralyzed by the liquor. Had there been less kick in the product, the hapless, defenseless bootleggers might have fulfilled their anticipation of stimulating the courage of their constituents rather than seeing all the available bravery drowned in the gutter...