Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simultaneous with Shaffer shooting, G-men had jumped Brady who was sitting in the back seat of his car. He was told to come but with his hands up. On getting out he suddenly pulled a gun and started firing. . . . He was trying to take his stand in the middle of the road when several bursts from machine guns lifted him off his feet and threw him to the pavement, dead...
Trouble between Messrs. Browning and Crump has long been brewing. The Crump organization that helped elect Governor Browning last year had previously, in 1934, helped defeat him for the U. S. Senate. Once in the Governor's seat, Gordon Browning promptly broke with his political benefactor by appointing Boss Crump's longtime adversary, Lewis S. Pope, special tax investigator. Opening blast in the current squabble between Boss and Governor was fired by Boss Crump. Said he when he first heard about the unit plan: "The Sneak has the insane desire to go to the United States Senate...
Dodge has few startling changes-new-radiator ensemble, improved dash, two-way adjustable front seat. Its ten body types include two convertibles...
Comedy between the halves on the field made the water a joke but when the Vagabond and his girl sat down again a rivulet on the seat made it a wet, very wet joke. Amid this flood of the heavens there was a squirming and uneasiness. Oilskins from the Five and Ten covered exposed legs; the water coursed down the smooth surface of the cloth onto the backs of those in front. Gentlemen turned down the rear brim of their hats, and the water spouted into the face of those behind. The Vagabond's girl borrowed his handkerchief...
Trenton (pop. 370) is the proud seat of triangular Dade County at Georgia's northwest corner, only a few miles across the State line from Chattanooga. The towering bluffs of Lookout Mountain cut the county off from its own State, help keep its population at less than five to the square mile. When highway construction-last month closed the road to Chattanooga, township Mayor I. H. Wheeler quickly asked the Southern Railway to stop its crack New York-New Orleans limited at Trenton to supplement the sole, inconveniently-timed local. The 10:25 a. m. northerly limited would land...