Word: tarring
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...Mobile seethed in righteous wrath. In homes, in clubs, on streets, audible threats of tar-barrels, feathers, the noose rose out of mutterings and fist-shakings. One evening last week warnings from county officials came to Mr. Darrow, plain-clothes men grouped themselves about his door; on the next morning he fled on the noon train to Chattanooga throwing a parting word of denial of what the Klan said he said, planned to return North...
...Rabbit hit the tar baby five times. With what did he hit him the fifth time...
Once in a little southern town she made rough workmen passing by the railroad yard hold their breath while she spoke to them from atop a pile of tar-smeared ties. An enraptured foreman forgot to blow his whistle...
Fiction DOOMSDAY - Warwick Deeping* - Knopf ($2.50). A Pandora of rural England. TOMORROW MORNING - Anne Parish - Harper ($2). A mother's sacrifice; tears, smiles, aspiration. TAR: A MIDWEST CHILDHOOD - Sherwood Anderson - Boni & Liveright ($3). A Huckleberry Finn in lower Ohio. THE PLUTOCRAT - Booth Tarking ton - Doubleday, Page ($2). An Illinois Caesar visits Carthage. CHILDREN OF THE MORNING - W. L. George- Putnam ($2). What became of 59 children stranded on a desert island. EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE - Felix Riesenberg - Har court, Brace ($2.50). Epical treatment of Manhattan, isle of psychlones. I'LL HAVE A FINE FUNERAL - Pierre La Maziere - Brentano...
...sows' ears, boars' ankles," potato peelings, toothpicks and all manner of garbage. In a large factory now being constructed under his specifications, kitchen refuse will be sifted for the cellulose ingredients of artificial silk or, if desired, gun cotton. The remaining refuse will be distilled for tar, charcoal, acetic acid...