Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Onorevole Mussolini returned last week to his birthplace, Predappio, donned a fore and aft cap a la Sherlock Holmes, confined himself to a vegetarian and lactic diet, and proceeded to till fields, raise callouses...
...itself." So violently did each generation lead its own life that the Black Babyons lived forever in the whispered tales of villagers and gypsies, forever in the portraits that glared fiercely from the dusky walls of the manor gallery. Tainted with madness, each generation warped and haunted the next, till between them their evil eye withered the fruit of the womb, and ended the line. Vivid, self-willed, fascinating, they had persisted through four ages...
From head to foot this man has upon him the effects of a deep perusal of Gumbel's "Kollege Klothes." He hasn't missed a trick. There is the smart felt, a copy of the Knox model, but you get it for $3.73 instead of $10.00. Just walt till it gets wet (or at least wetter). There is the snap on tie, so trick that you know at a glance only an expert factory girls' fingers could have tied it. But then she might have been his girl; who can tell. The coat and pants have a brother...
...with threats to carry off the "steps." Judy countered by kidnapping her brood, complete with nurses, to the Dolomites where Bachelor Martin was wooing a suave and lovely widow of the old school. Naïvely Judy demanded Martin's championship versus parents-which is all very well till he falls in love with her. He thereupon escapes to Africa; she and her brood, un-championed, lapse into their hectic scattered existence at smart European hotels, in the feverish wake of this parent or that...
...scoundrels, blacklegs and professional pickpockets, treasury raiders, till tappers, exploiters of women, card sharpers, commission killers, per diem gun men, contract bombers and percentage kidnappers used all their violence to nominate a ticket which would be good for four years more of all this, dated from next November, and the combinations of politics, crime and vice were defeated in a desperate effort of the people of Chicago to get rid of them...