Word: set
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Charles Stevens, U. S. dry agent, set out with friends to raid the farm of Tom Chandler, 43, north of Poteet, Tex. The farmer, sitting on his front porch, rose, picked up a gun. ''We're federal officers and you're under arrest," called Agent Stevens. Leveling his rifle at the farmer, Stevens started to rush him, tripped over a sand rut, pulled the trigger, shot the farmer through the heart, dead. Stevens had no search warrant. His raid netted a still, 19 barrels of mash, 28 gallons of whiskey. He was held...
...anesthetic wore off and M. Poincarè regained consciousness he appeared to think first and only of work. Certain reports had had to be left unfinished when illness obliged him to resign the Prime Ministry. As soon as ever he could Le Lion called for documents, ink and paper, set about completing the reports in his clear, precise, almost microscopic hand. So many huge baskets and bouquets arrived that when the invalid's room was full Mme. Poincare ordered the surplus sent, not without vanity, to deck the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...Chang Tsung-chang and his harem.'' As every Chinaman knows, Ugly Customer Chang is the rapacious former Chinese War Lord of Shantung. He taxed and stole $10,000,000 cash out of that luckless province before the Chinese Nationalists drove him out (TIME, Sept. 24). Insatiable, he set sail from Japanese waters last spring with a privateering expedition, recaptured part of Shantung, terrorized banks and merchants into yielding him more gold, was finally driven out a second time (TIME, April...
Deviously Paula set about her malefactions. First she led Boyd to believe that Barbara had merely been duping him. So much did this evidence of duplicity infuriate the upright fellow that he straightway became drunk and stole into the night with Paula. She took him to an unsavory rooming house, where a blue-chinned bootlegger appeared. Boyd sampled his wares and found them unpalatable. When the bootlegger asked for pay, Boyd refused. A tussle ensued. The bootlegger produced a revolver. Paula snatched a convenient bottle and felled him. Then while Boyd dropped in a drunken stupor over the bootlegger...
...closed rooming house door and said: "You can go to hell." This and his subsequent remarks were murmurous realities. The rest was mere melodramatic pressure. Peggy Shannon, an advertised titian contest winner from Pine Bluff, Ark., flirted gaily through the first act but disappeared before the grim days set...