Word: upped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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And in his mantle, muffling up his face,
*Simultaneously before New York's City Hall a demonstration of 500 communists against U. S. policy in Haiti was broken up by mounted police, 18 demonstrators arrested. The charge: No permit.
In ponderous mockery Senator Norris of Nebraska picked up a yellow woolen garment from the tariff exhibit called "Grundy's store" and commenced to declaim :
Blackmail. Two Bostonian District Attorneys and a Federal District Attorney's assistant put the "age-old badger game on a big business basis." It cost disporting cinema tycoons $105,000 to hush up one party; $120,000 preserved the reputation of a famed tenor; $380,000 kept a New...
He is " 'in right' very high up indeed," can smash small operators. Hip-pocket bootleggers, some boys not over 16, peddle booze "under the 'L' on Washington Street." In nearly every office building is at least one speakeasy. Boston police deliver good whiskey to customers.