Word: strays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...territory charted out, with grim red lines marking the boundaries ? 'OH, YOU TAKE THE HIGH BROW AND I'LL TAKE THE LOW BROW'? That's the way the system works ? and as the dirt comes to me, an amateur starter is about as welcome as a stray Hip Sing in Mott Street. . . . Discovery that K. K. K. stood for 'Ku Klux Kon' has reduced the membership in the Klan from 9,000,000 five years ago to 35,000 now. Tough on the Imperial Wizard and the percentage-boy organizers, but I guess nobody else is weeping...
...merely stated exactly what had happened, to wit that a stray clipping about a fish had been brought in for explanation by a puzzled fish expert, and then I proceeded to quote from it, carefully placing every portion of it in quotation marks...
Babe, a collie-shepherd cross of St. Louis, who, with the help of a stray puppy, fished a small boy out of a sewer...
...earned money as a flower girl and match-seller. She would clout fighting drunkards apart, would take stray babies...
...Detroit, Mich., R. V. Wayne, who has befriended some 10,000 stray cats in his lifetime, found that robbers had made off with his Cadillac car and a kitten with 23 toes which was sitting in the back seat. Perturbed, R. V. Wayne offered a reward for the return of the kitten...