Word: township
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...backwoods Bannisters, for all their advantages of fresh air and beautiful scenery, lived in a condition of squalor equal to that of any city slum. Heavy, truculent Mother Bannister was the township's "fast woman." In peaked caps and corduroy breeches, her sons, pinheaded Daniel and grinning Arthur, snared rabbits in the woods. So irredeemably relaxed were the Bannister morals that a Salvation Army officer assigned to improve their lot ended by undoing 13-year-old daughter Marie. At about that time the Bannisters got their bright idea...
...many of his contemporaries in early 19th Century Philadelphia, Stephen Girard was an old codger in an unfashionable full-skirted coat and pigtail who frequently jostled his way to High Street Market to sell baskets of eggs and vegetables from his farm in Passyunk Township, three miles southwest of the city. Solid burghers, however, recognized him as the man who paid one-tenth of Philadelphia's real estate taxes, who had in 1814 subscribed to 95% of the U. S. Government's unpopular $5,000,000 war loan. Clergymen were painfully aware that he read the French rationalists...
...daughters, Mary Belle Jr., 16, and Victoria, 14, had never been to school before last autumn. That the Spencer girls have indeed been lifelong truants is a fact which their mother has long made familiar to most Chicago newsreaders, but only recently to the school department of suburban Bloom Township. When Attorney Spencer had Fandancer Sally Rand arrested for indecent exposure in 1934, newshawks showed her a picture of her own shapely daughters in a bathing beauty contest (see cut) elicited this response: "My girls must never be repressed. Their minds must not be filled with other people...
...Lome township, Ontario, Canada, William Minkinen, 55, leaped from a high rock into Vermillion River, slashing his throat with & knife in his right hand, holding a lighted stick of dynamite in his left. The cut was superficial, the explosion blew off his left hand. William Minkinen died of drowning...
Such was the law about which the citizens of West Amwell Township complained. To enforce it Mr. Hutson was to have had an initial appropriation of $5,000,000, no great sum in view of the fact that the number of potential potato leggers far exceeds the number of potential liquor leggers under Prohibition. But as a further handicap the appropriation for enforcement failed of enactment with the Third Deficiency Bill. One private consolation Mr. Hutson had: the Supreme Court would probably declare Potato Control unconstitutional since the whole scheme depends on a confiscatory "tax" which makes no pretense...