Word: twist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until the Kellys were safely behind bars in the Shelby County jail did Federal authorities tell the story of the hunt and the twist that led to Kelly's capture. "The Kellys left Texas sure they were not linked with the case," explained Federal Agent William A. Rorer. "They were driving Kathryn Kelly's 16-cylinder automobile and didn't waste much time in covering their tracks. A magazine detective could have followed them to Minneapolis. From there it was easy to trace them through Chicago to Detroit. In Detroit they began to realize their heels were...
Throwing axes at logs "is convenient, interesting and effective, for it brings into operation nearly all muscular groups in the body. It requires a stance and gives a twist to the torso which is most effective in subduing an uproarious waistline...
...behind. For approximately $3,750,000 he agreed to buy 40,000,000 lb. of dark-fired tobacco from two big cooperatives, giving him a practical corner on the dark-fired market.* As was often the case before his crash, Mr. Caldwell's deal had a political twist. He will assume the obligations of dark-fired growers to the R. F. C. for crop advances, is also seeking (and will probably get) R. F. C. assistance in financing the deal. Bitterly opposed is Universal Tobacco Co., a syndicate which has contracts to supply the Spanish monopoly with dark-fired...
Bernard Mannes Baruch sailed for France to "boil some of the wickedness out of me" at Vichy. Said he: "I'm not going to London because if I did some one would twist it around and call me a delegate, a prophet or something." Asked what he thought of the phrase "Assistant President" applied to himself, he replied: "____ ____.* Now let's talk of something else." A reporter asked him about his reputation as an eater of okra. "Ah, okra!" said Statesman Baruch. "Okra is never good unless it breaks like a cracker...
...opened in 1638, Nathaniel Eaton, a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, was appointed headmaster. He shepherded his pupils into a rude wooden building, the foundations of which were uncovered in building the Harvard Square subway terminal. But Eaton's school was a miserable affair, a boarding-school of Oliver Twist pupils and Fagan-like masters, and Eaton himself was removed in two years for assaulting a "Young gentleman" with a club. This rough frontiersman-teacher kept a diary, in which he related how he set out 30 apple trees "in the Yard," literally the backyard of his house. This original...