Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hisses, jeers and shouts from the radicals. They rushed forward and tried to shove Howat back on the platform. "Shooter" Smith, a gray-bearded mountaineer from Tennessee, William Blizzard of West Virginia and their followers repulsed the assault. More jeers and booes as Howat retired defeated...
...Omsk, capital of Omsk Province in West Siberia, an anti-Bolshevik outbreak occurred. About 300 Bolsheviki were arrested, some were shot without trial. A group of 22 Bolsheviki were hemmed in a house, burned alive...
...Lord Trotsky was also reflected as Commissar for War, but since he left for the Caucasus (extreme south-west Russia) he has not been heard from...
Rebel troops were reported to be short of ammunition, but in the Vera Cruz district they were putting up a stiff fight, while in the North there was much "activity" and in the West an "important victory...
...Weaver is slim, dark, active, almost jumpy. He is perennially young; at least he looks easily ten years younger than he is, and he's still under thirty. He is a Southerner, but long years in the Middle West have quite obliterated any trace of a Southern accent. He attended Hamilton College?this he holds a bond in common with Alexander Woollcott, the increasingly weighty dramatic critic of The New York Herald. As a bitter and somewhat bumptious critic Mr. Weaver made his early reputation on the Chicago Daily News. His columns in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle have been characterized...