Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right' very high up indeed," can smash small operators. Hip-pocket bootleggers, some boys not over 16, peddle booze "under the 'L' on Washington Street." In nearly every office building is at least one speakeasy. Boston police deliver good whiskey to customers...
...Navy. To hold this empire the navy maintains for its fighting fleets large stations at Guantanamo Bay (leased from Cuba under a treaty), at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, at Cavite near Manila, small ones at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, at Guam, Panama, Samoa and Olongapo. Policing the Caribbean is the Special Service Squadron under Rear Admiral Edward Hale Campbell. On its beat along the China coast moves the Asiatic fleet of two cruisers, 19 destroyers, auxiliary vessels, gunboats on the Yangtze River...
...White Paper" is any brief government report to the British Parliament printed in a small unbound pamphlet (50 to 100 words), not unlike a U. S. congressional committee report. A similar but more pretentious document is the "Blue Paper," bound in blue covers...
...feet of a clear minded old campaigner who has one or two good stories to tell. The pages turn quickly, the style is pleasantly homely, the interest glows from one point to another. But its worth as a valuation of Whitman's art, in this reviewer's opinion, small...
Admittedly these are small matters and as was pointed out in the earlier editorial they are only cited to show which way the wind blows. By observing the same straws which but lately showed such a strong breeze setting in from the shores of Albion, it is now possible to report that storm warnings seem no longer necessary...