Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zimman passed his jug. They took it -and then they tried to take Mr. Zimman too. They were Lawrence E. Thompson and Stanley Riegel, U. S. Dry agents. Protested Mr. Zimman: "I'm not a bootlegger. I'm a citizen." They laughed at his sick-friend story. A scuffle started. Mr. Zimman was subdued, arrested, lodged with the Omaha police on a charge of liquor possession...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Robert Henri (pronounced Hen-Rye), 64, outstanding U. S. artist, sick since last autumn in St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan...
...agents could come and go in the warehouse premises. Craftily, more than 500 barrels, 2,000 cases were tapped, their fuming contents siphoned out. Back inside was poured a concoction of colored water and alcohol which would show the proper proof to deceive gaugers but which even a "sick" person would never mistake for old whiskey. For a year these illegal extractions at Sibley Warehouse had been in progress, evidently, before their full extent was disclosed to Commissioner of Prohibition James M. Doran, who, last week in Washington, sat frowning at an 84-page report. At 'legger prices...
...Arcade. But this is only to excite jealousy in Louie, her latest. Dark and dapper, Louie steps up to Jencic, who just stands there like a block of wood, patient and talkative. Louie punches him on the jaw. Sitting on the sidewalk, hulking Jencic looks up with sick eyes, whispering...
...annoying the Government. Of 9,000 peasant houses destroyed by fire in one (Samara) province last year, 3,000 were due to arson. Fire insurance paid out totaled four million rubles ($2,000,000). The peasant explains with a wink: "The peasant's cottage soon grows sick and draughty. Then comes a fire-is it an accident? The peasant gets a fine new home from the Government." A cogent scratch of the nose and then a conclusion: "They take taxes and fix a low-price for grain, but little Uncle Fire is free from their control...