Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven editors of newspapers in jail, with the President of "L'Union Patriotique" and the Secretary of that Association. Nine altogether. Please read the Nation and help...
...these two Italians, Nicola Sacco, had worked in a shoe factory and cultivated a garden in Stoughton, Mass., before he was sent to jail for murder, seven years ago. He had a wife named Rose, a son named Dante, a little daughter named Inez. He was inclined to be moody, introspective, with occasional outburst of fumbled yet eloquent English. He detested capitalistic society, as did his comrade in life and in jail, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, bachelor, onetime fish peddler and ditchdigger, whose mustache used to be neatly curled. Mr. Vanzetti, an outspoken emotionalist, was the acknowledged orator of the pair...
...Louis whirled, drifted, slid down out of a blue sky, landed on McCook Field. The field was almost literally deserted. So, after a brief conversation with officials, Colonel Lindbergh sailed up in the air once more, reappeared one hour later at the time scheduled for his arrival. Seven thousand citizens, shrilling and cheering, heard Colonel Lindbergh gravely remark on Dayton as an aviation centre...
...title of Colonel, as did Col. Edward M. House, from an appointment to the staff of the Governor of Texas. He has lost one leg; the other is slightly rheumatic?so he rides about in an electric car over the seven miles of paved roads on his estate. A genial squire and patron, he keeps 300 employees, has 32 residences for them...
...prisoner he proved so docile and almost smugly obedient that his seven-year term was reduced automatically to five. Even this was cut down a few days last week by the prison authorities who had reason to think that if Horatio Bottomley was released on the date previously announced he would be met at the prison door by a huge admiring crowd of onetime soldiers, race-track folk, stage people and vague legions of "the lower classes." To prevent this scandal, the prisoner was hustled out of jail and despatched to his Sussex home in a discreet motor...