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Word: well (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ready for anything. He came back and says 'Got fifty?'. I reached in my pocket and took out a roll and handed him over fifty. 'That just about cleans me', I said. 'You see I'm new at the game, just started last week'. 'Oh, well in that case', he said, 'no one can say I'm a hog; here take ten back. Now run along and make your deliveries; I'll watch your car while you're gone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bootlegger Describes Interesting Incidents of a Very Adventurous and Hazardous Trade | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...selling beer. The defense was that it wasn't more than one half percent and they'd leave it to the jury to decide. The jury took the whole batch of beer, about 50 bottles or so into the jury room. About three hours later they came out well plastered, and damned if they didn't render a decision of guilty." The lawyer for the defence jumped up and said 'Those men aren't jurors; they're witnesses'. He then aled exceptions on the grounds of intoxication in the jury and lack of evidence, the jury having finished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bootlegger Describes Interesting Incidents of a Very Adventurous and Hazardous Trade | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...population center of the college for with the completion of the new houses the majority of students will be living near the river. In addition to this, a building as large as the proposed chapel would occupy much of one of the last open spaces in the already well filled Yard. With unit number two of the houses obliterating one of the few grass plots remaining in this section of Cambridge, the college, authorities should avoid rather than project a crowded building plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SNAP JUDGEMENTS | 11/22/1929 | See Source »

...fullest extent, gives an excellent portrayal of the life of a poor stenographer mixed up in the affairs of wealthy men. The show is hardly one for the "tired business man"; it is one that demands your attention throughout, and the plot of it is so intricate, but also well worked out, that it keeps the audience in constant suspense as to how the love affairs of Marion Donnell will finally turn out. The pathos of the picture, although at times it borders on the usual movie sentimentalism, is enough to force the feminine part of the audience to bring...

Author: By O. E. F., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/22/1929 | See Source »

...first place, if the money for the erection of this structure has been collected, it would be well to know where the building is to be placed. Also at this time it would be wise to divulge something of the features of this chapel and what is to become of Appleton. The whole affair seems to be shrouded in an air of mystery as if there were some unpleasant details which would not be favorable for publication. Rather than attempt to hide this from the undergraduates, it would be better to announce the facts so that they might at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Memorial Chapel | 11/22/1929 | See Source »

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