Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Latin-American States in the pursuit of Crime. Ever since the Spanish Conquest, notably tough individuals variously known as "rebels," "bandits" or "leaders" have led private armies against the forces of law & order. They always have a base village where they are beloved. They live off the land, sack isolated villages for food and women. Today they concentrate in the central and western States surrounding Mexico City. Through Puebla and Morelos roams El Tallarin, one of the most famed of living bandits. Jalisco belongs to Lauro Rocha. In Durango operates Francisco Vasquez. In Guanajuato until last week the small...
Last week Captain Cadek was quickly found guilty of accepting bribes, sentenced to from two to 20 years in the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus. Captain Cadek sent out from his Cleveland cell for a sack of chewing tobacco, stoically remarked : "A good guy always gets kicked around...
...which was to take him to Gibraltar. Thence he was expected to make his own way to London. Again the fuzzy little papillon pattered at his heels. Farther behind followed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan and his 12-year-old brother, the Duke of Harar, both tricked out in European sack suits and derbies. The roly-poly Empress Menen remained in Jerusalem. The Emperor's party significantly traveled, not on League of Nations passports or British laissez-passer cards, but on Haile Selassie's own Ethiopian Government passports...
Outside of the mound assignment, there will be no change in the Harvard lineup. Al Colwell, as usual, will occupy the hot corner, with Johnny Adzigian at third and Frank Owen holding down the keystone sack...
Colorado Springs' No. 1 philanthropist and art-lover is Mrs. Fred Morgan Pike Taylor, a broker's widow, a St. Louis sack-&-bag man's daughter, who gave the Fine Arts Center $600,000 for a building, enough to endow it with $100,000 a year. Designed by Architect John Gaw Meem of Santa Fe, it is massive, severely functional...