Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left Memphis accompanied by Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis social worker, to investigate Weems's death and gather material for his obituary. At Earle, they were seized by vigilantes. Parson Williams was given 14 thumping whacks with a mule's belly strap. Then Willie Sue Blagden got four solid clouts. Governor Futrell and the local sheriff protested that the Weems "funeral" was only propaganda, that Frank Weems was still alive, but their pooh-poohing paled beside a published photograph of Willie Sue Blagden exposing a plump thigh bearing a large black & blue mark...
...crane that "J. Henry" used to hoist into place these solid blocks of business enterprise was a political machine which he began building as a youthful town committee chairman in North Canaan. In a borrowed horse & buggy he would haul lazy Republicans to the polls. By 1898 he was a State committeeman. and in 1910 made his first bid for Bosshood. He ran Charles A. Goodwin of Hartford for Governor against Everett J. Lake, then Lieutenant-Governor. Goodwin won the nomination but "J. Henry" had split the Party, and for the first time in 20 years a Democrat was elected...
Although granting the enemy batters nine blows, Shean kept the hits well scattered until tiring in the seventh when four Northeastern men reached first on solid knocks, with three runs crossing the plate. In addition the Crimson twirler dished out but three walks to opposing batsmen...
...Marxists," France and Russia, were tackled next. Germany's ambition is to see a solid Fascist wedge driven between the two, to dominate central Europe as she did before the War-with this difference. Before the War, Germany was the central figure of Mittel-Europa, scheming for a pan-Germany from the Baltic to the Persian Gulf. Then Italy was a wavering German satellite. Now she is the virtual Boss of central Europe and pan-Germany must wait upon Italy's permission even to penetrate the Danube basin economically. To sell their new solidarity to Britain and France...
...Wrote he: "I would consider it more than unfortunate for me should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet-to discover that the stone walls and towers and fireplaces of my home, founded at every point on the solid rock of Connecticut; that my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels through solid rock . . . that my locomotives and cars, constructed on the safest and most efficient mechanical principles . . . should reveal themselves to me as in the possession of some blithering saphead...