Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shouted back Senator Cutting. "I implied that if you saw the word 'laughter,' the most ordinary sense of justice would have led you to strike...
...famed U. S. radical labor leader; of cancer; in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. As a child (Russian-born) she worked in U. S. sweatshops. Later, a labor reformer, she met and married James Graham Phelps Stokes, socialite philanthropist, who divorced her 20 years later. She led many a strike, received but did not serve a 10-year sentence on a Wartime espionage charge...
...swing into a lawyer's office window on the second floor, and the bag came down on the high tension wires which of course destroyed it and put several towns in darkness. I also had a lady rider come down on some high tension wires. Thought she might strike them so telephoned and had power shut off. She said it was "as easy as a spring bed.'' The city fireman rescued her from her high perch ... I wanted to correct the impression that the Bonettes are believed to be the only hot air balloonists...
...tenor Henrico Ferraro dodges his ranting manageress, Non-Stop Nora, to strike an acquaintanceship with a garrulous and none too scrupulous stranger. When the stranger buys wine with his money, Ferraro does not object. When the stranger takes the liberty of inviting himself into the same hotel room, Ferraro remains tolerant. But when the stranger is mistaken for the tenor, Ferraro is delighted...
...although he had risen to his feet for the sake of effect and he sat down again with some abruptness unable to remember whether he had made his joke or not. "Good fellows, but a little slow." He sighed and started to light a cigarette but forgot to strike a match so that it never got him anywhere. "It's more fun to be fooled." He sighed again...