Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days of prayer and debate. Odds of 7 to 4 favoring the Prayer Book narrowed rapidly to even money, and finally reached 5 to 4 against. "Since nearly all members of the exclusive clubs where such betting took place are professed Church of Englanders, the hypothesis that all upper-crust Britons are congenital hypocrites may be said to have been strengthened...
...which is supposed to live where the Presidential flies are now dropping. On the President's second office visit, he received some St. Paul and Minneapolis businessmen who felt obliged to him for signing a bill this spring to extend a Government barge line on the upper reaches of the Mississippi. He then told them he favored private operation of that barge line, regarded Federal operation as an experiment. A delegation of railroad men, who wanted to express disapproval of the proposed Lakes-to-Sea waterway, arrived late by plane from the Twin Cities, missed their appointment. Before going...
...days after Capone's arrival in Miami, a man standing at the window of an apartment on Chicago's upper West Side, put his hand to his hat and tilted it. Two figures loitering on a porch across the street immediately began firing with repeating shotguns at two men who had emerged from a fish shop and were entering a parked automobile. The targets died at once, torn and streaming with slug wounds. They were identified as John ("Bowlegs") Oliveri and Joseph Salamone, familiar to the police as members of the local alcohol "racket." Oliveri had lately joined...
...with one white star on a blue field in the upper staff corner...
...with one white star on a blue field in upper staff corner...