Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condition. I know of no magical solution. ... I believe the way out of the present difficulty . . . involves a repeal of the 18th Amendment [tremendous applause] and the substitution therefor of an Amendment which will restore to the States the power to determine their policy toward the liquor traffic and vest in the Federal Government power to give all possible protection and assistance to those States that desire complete prohibition...
...tackle, began casting with a "Royal Coachman" and a "Grizzly King." Next day he used the same flies, plus a "Silver Doctor." Into his creel went 20 trout, the legal limit. No Sunday fisherman, he visited the school he had built near his camp, questioned Miss Christine Vest on the progress of her 18 pupils...
...mourning when any of his own men fell in battle. He wore flashy diamonds, a rose in his lapel. The sight of photographers used to drive him into a profane rage. Legends grew up about him: that he traveled in an armored car, wore a bullet-proof vest. With every gang murder that occurred in Chicago, his name was automatically connected. But the police could never fasten upon him even the semblance of legal guilt...
That sort of Siwash stuff does not go at Harvard. It might be all right in some talk-town college in the middle 'Vest we are the yokels cut up to impress co-aids, but it is an indication that have crept into Harvard youngsters ist behind the ears and sadly in bibs...
With infinite caution he now rested his left arm against the poor box, and, bending down as though in profound prayer introduced the gum-tipped bone through the slot. A coin stuck to the gum. Soon it was dextrously transferred to a greasy vest pocket. Then another coin, another another-while vast St. Peter's rang with the glorious music of the Church Militant...