Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whatever human targets took his fancy in the house windows or under streetlights. A contractor was first to die. Then a doctor was slain in his office. A railroad detective was riddled in the freight yards. A bullet smashed past a girl at a drugstore counter. The "phantom" also went shooting in Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River. His weapon made only a muffled chug in the night as his lead whizzed after pedestrians and into people's homes...
...Negro was in the room, clutching a hatchet. Mrs. Stribling's husband, a powerful man, lay dying in the bed, his head mangled. The Negro chopped at Mrs. Stribling, gashed her over the eye. She begged for mercy. "Well, then, go and wash your face," he said. He went with her, washed his hands. He asked to see her baby and stood over its crib for several minutes. Like a mother partridge playing broken-wing, she begged him to leave the house with her. He took her to the swamps on the edge of town...
...Orleans last week went the delegates of U. S. trade unionism to attend the 48th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor. Justly they felt important, for they represented more than 3,000,000 of the citizenry. The convention opened with overtones of optimism. Labor had heard about President-Elect Hoover's scheme to prevent unemployment, as outlined by Maine's Brewster at the New Orleans conference of Governors (see p. 13). Of this scheme William Green, President of the A. F. of L., had said: "It is the first definite movement to systematize wages & employment...
...with the premonition of this thought. As though some primeval giant or very god lay dying, even Nature grew disturbed, then violent. Great storms lashed the continent of Europe from the Mediterranean to the Baltic. Gales and floods brought death to 149 men and women, most of whom went down on foundered merchant ships or perished in the many flooded areas of the Rhineland, Holland, Belgium, Ireland, Wales and England. Seldom has Death come more awesomely. The storm was worthy even of George V, King and Emperor, defender of the faith, who lay all week in his great...
Three judges of the Mexican Supreme Court went to jail last week. In the jail, at Mexico City, they crowded into a large cell with Assassin José de Leon Toral, self-confessed slayer of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...