Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas than its own Governor, who was expected to veto the Long plan if it were passed (TIME, Sept. 21). Then Governor Long went too far in his exhortations. He declared the Texas Legislature was being swayed by paid lobbyists, "blandished with wine, women and money, bought like a sack of corn, paid off like a slot machine...
...September 23, 1911 at an aviation meet near Garden City, L. I., Earle Lewis Ovington was sworn in as ''air mail pilot number one." He climbed into his Blériot monoplane Dragonfly, received a sack of mail from Postmaster-General Frank Harris Hitchcock, flew six miles to Mineola and dumped the sack (which he had been holding on his lap) at the feet of Postmaster William McCarthy. Seven years elapsed before regular airmail service was attempted in the U. S. with an experimental route between New York and Washington. But sentimentalists of aviation like to think...
...airing. Frixie ran away from the boy who, too frightened to report to Mrs. Wood, stayed in hiding. Four days later Frixie's body was found. Some fiend had beaten Frixie, poisoned him, thrown him on a fire, then put the charred body in a laundry sack, cast it into a gutter. Mr. Wood, a wholesale milliner, offered $50 reward for the fiend's capture...
...some one dies, you call in a Chinaman, put the deceased in a box, or sack if you haven't a box, and the Chinaman packs the remains neatly on the chair and trots off to the cemetery. I saw several funerals like that...
...Soldiers Field today at 4 o'clock. Four Harvard captains are to return to take part in the game, H. W. Burns '28 at center field; F. E. Nugent '30 at third pase; C. L. Todd '26 at left field, and George Owen, Jr. '23, at the initial sack. J. P. Chase '28, captain of the alumni nine, will hold down the second base, while Assistant Dean Henry Chauncey '27 is to occupy the catcher's berth. F. B. Cutts '28, who as an undergraduate featured in four victories over Yale, is to twirl for the graduates, while...