Word: routings
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...city after city, we are teaching people to evade their responsibilities by tacitly assuming that they will avoid paying rout. There are very few cities in which to any considerable extent money for rout is given to those in need. There are unemployed families who for three years have occupied one house or a succession of houses without paying a dollar of rent...
...rout of the B. E. F. from Pennsylvania Avenue broke its back. But the military was not yet through. It "gassed" small scattered camps in the vicinity of the Capitol, shoved out their occupants, left smoking ruins behind. By 9 p. m. the troopers had advanced to the Anacostia bridge, beyond which on the mudflats lay Bonus City, the B. E. F.'s main encampment. The camp commander rushed out waving a white shirt for a truce, asked for time to evacuate the several hundred women and children. He got an hour's grace...
...team that Colby can bring here as nothing worth serious worry, although last year's defeat at the hands of the invaders was a startling upset, and has left an impression here of what a formidable batting attack really is. But since the Thursday's 29 to 3 rout of the Boston University nine has been noised abroad, it is generally felt that last season's come-down will remain merely an unpleasant memory in the Harvard camp. Gleason is Coach Mitchell's present selection to cover the initial sack, as a result of a little competition for this position...
...made this Conservative victory possible included the Labor Cabinet's split, the Naval mutiny and sterling's slide off gold?but it was the Conservative Party machine, reorganized, conciliated within itself and tuned up by Neville Chamberlain which all over England turned the Labor enemy's defeat into a rout. That rout was the reason why the 1932-33 Budget of His Majesty's Exchequer was presented to the House of Commons last week by Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain as Chancellor...
...barrage of roses continues, Mephistopheles, surveying the rout of his Satans, exclaims...