Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left his private car at Albany, the Brothers O'Connell, local Democratic bosses, on hand with 5,000 hollering henchmen gave him hugs of welcome. A 30-piece band blared "He's a Jolly Good Fellow." A salute of 21 aerial bombs banged out. Against the sunset sky banners marked "Walker for Governor" fluttered before the Mayor, who acknowledged the demonstration by shaking his own hands over his head like a pugilist entering the ring. When he returned to Manhattan two days later, Tammany Hall was ready for him. Two bus loads of ward heelers were dispatched...
...week whipped out a jackknife in the Louvre and slashed The Angelus five times, stabbed it several times and scratched it in 20 places, he was overcome by a guard, jailed, judged insane. Experts began at once to repair the gashes and stabs. Except for a rent in the sky, all can be made invisible. The picture, though not inimitable, is irreplaceable, hence its value will not be affected by stabs and gashes...
...crowd of 70,000 waiting in the stadium, where the Olympic torch flared enormously against a dark sky, heard a trumpet blast as the first runner came into the chute for the finish. They recognized Zabala, tired but still running strongly. A hundred yards behind him was Samuel Ferris of England. Armas Toivonen of Finland and Wright were in the stadium also by the time Zabala, a small solemn figure jogging steadily through an uproar of cheers and trumpets, reached the finish. It was the closest marathon in Olympic history and the fastest?...
...their arms. Huts and lean-tos were set afire, partly by the departing veterans, partly by the soldiers. By midnight Bonus City, once the home of 10,000 jobless hungry men & women, was a field of roaring bonfires. President Hoover could see its fiery glow on the Eastern sky from his White House window. At dawn the place was a charred & blackened ruin. The B. E. F. was gone. Not a shot had been fired by the victorious Army...
...tools of socialization, inheritance and income taxes would be boosted sky-high to break up private fortunes, reduce personal profits, abolish unearned income. Tax-exempt securities would be closed as a refuge for the rich...