Word: sided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born in 1878 on July 4. He has emphasized this accident ever since by waving the U. S. flag whenever possible. This irritating propensity, together with his blatant assurance, are the most disagreeable qualities in a man who is otherwise a shrewd and skillful playwright, a mime whose side-of-the-mouth technique with songs or wisecracks has made him a success in an almost infinite number of "American comedies," from Little Johnny Jones to The Merry Malones...
Prime Minister's limousine and peasant's cart plunged side by side down the road for 20 yards, the peasant sawing at his horses' mouths, shouting bristling Bulgarian obscenities in a voice like the ripping of an oak plank. Finally with his horses but not his temper under control, the farmer pulled a big, black, Balkan pistol from his waistband, punctuated his curses with bullets. Shots riddled the windshield and the rear windows of the Liaptcheff car. Only by sliding prudently to the floor did Bulgaria's Prime Minister keep his skin whole...
...week, was immaculate Grover Whalen, Manhattan's debonair chief policeman. On Park Row one Prescott Robinson, ebullient young surface car trackwalker, "gave the bird" (burbled offensively with fat tongue in loose lips) to Commissioner Whalen's gleaming motor. Detective Carl Lynn leaped from the Commissioner's side, arrested the burbling trackwalker, haled him to police headquarters. Like Minister Liaptcheff Commissioner Whalen "refused to prosecute...
President Hoover is keeping only 1,500 Marines in Nicaragua-as mentors for the newly established native National Guard. Recently a group of leading editors in Managua, Nicaraguan Capital, manifestoed: "We have reached the limit. On the one side the Marines and on the other the National Guard . . . are committing disgraceful acts left and right. . . . We are complying with our inalienable duty as editors and patriotic Nicaraguans in pointing out the danger and calling the attention of the Nicaraguan Government ... to the need of enforcing order and decency in the troops who command...
...casual observer a dance hall is an upstairs place in a side street where the patrons stroll aimlessly about a railed-in hardwood floor, waiting for unknown partners to appear. For 10? they may pass the rail and dance for five minutes under red-lidded lights. A strong man supervises, sees there is no disturbance...