Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each state to chip in its "Stenographer's salary." up bounced State Senator Ralph Gilbert of Kentucky. Said he: "Gentlemen, I am a busy man. I didn't want to come to this meeting because I was so busy at home. We've had a lot of fine talk here about cooperation, but high sounding phrases aren't enough. I can get $5,000 from my legislature if I can show them what it will do for them. I have on my hands the immediate problem of the whiskey tax. The distillers threaten to move...
...Grace Warren Du Bois, "Last of the Warrens," self-styled descendant of William the Conqueror, was accused of murdering her son Dr. Charles Warren Du Bois, 32. The shriveled, plainfaced defendant wearily clung to the rail of the witness box, whispered: "My son was always afraid. I've never been afraid." Dully she insisted that a "mysterious young stranger'' had killed Charles Du Bois while he sat at breakfast. The State contended that Defendant Du Bois, angry at Charles's failure to measure up to his ancestry, had bought a .38 calibre revolver, shot...
Captain Gregory's Dollar Liner President Garfield had just docked on its regular round-the-world schedule. Passengers had complained of insolence and insubordination among the crew. One gentleman from East Orange roared: "Rottenest bunch of Red agitators I've ever seen!" Another said he was roundly berated by a steward whom he addressed as "boy." Dollar Line officials declared they were making a sincere effort to maintain the best possible service under the circumstances...
Build me a home; I am lonely, Lonely for a chimney and cat. I've been about and I've found out Life's too big for a flat...
...juicy morsel the piece de resistance of an immediate cash bonus disbursement for all persons under thirty-six, this being the reading period surprise of the Great White Father, and then dump both sweet essences into the arms of full-blooded Yale men, any Bolshevist will admit that you've got the makings of a dirty-bourgeois bombshell...