Word: sacksful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since repeal the gruesome Monday ceremony (attended by two maintenance men with rakes and sacks) of collecting and burning all the odds and ends left on the field, under the stands, and on the seats, has grown less and less arduous. Bottles are placed in the middle of the...
"The Bakunin battalion made up entirely of dockworkers from Barcelona, broke into Huesca at nine in the morning, but was checked for four hours by 26 machine-guns installed on a church roof and belfry, which vomited livid death into the front ranks of the Popular Frontists as they entered...
George Austin could not find a Nevada mining man to put up the $500 cash for a third interest and he himself did not want to mortgage the house he owned in Reno. Finally he borrowed $1,000 without security from a generous friend, made the down payment and bought...
Not to be confused with Radiopriest Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit, John J. Coughlin is famed as much for his bright waistcoats, his huge paunch and his absurd poetry, as for his losing racehorses. A onetime rubber in a Turkish bath establishment, he saved his tips, opened a bathhouse of...
Thirty-niners were beginning to think of forty-niners yesterday, when a week of mysterious drilling about the yard was capped by the sudden appearance of a great pit in front of Hollis Hall. Some characters were even seen snooping about with divining rods or trying to conceal large, empty...