Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week's Associated Negro Press release did contain a "stick" (two or three inches of type) on "The Flying Fool" (Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh). A major point made (erroneously) in this item was: "We trust that the cat which flew with him is a BLACK CAT, to wipe out the historic slander against that innocent an-imal." Captain Lindbergh took no cat with...
...crude oil into which men have drilled wells. They have been like boys, armed with straws, sucking lemonade up from great bowls. The harder a boy can suck and the more straws he can maneuver, the more lemonade he gets. If he stops to catch his breath or to wipe his nose, the other boys will suck up some share of his drink. Oil operators are such suckers, all ceaselessly aspirating oil from common, underground pools. Oil men are inclined not to trust one another...
...purged of such poison by fair means or foul: "away with such fellows from the earth". That panic, with its follies and wrongs, has largely subsided; but these two men have been mentally placed in the dreaded class, and for many citizens it has become impossible to wipe out this first picture and replace it by a saner one, remembering that they are not on trial for their opinions...
...France' - adding, 'I would like to meet Jusserand and tell him that to his face.' . . . Only a man with superb indifference to truth and the realities can assert that the Americans who fell in France did not die in vain. ... In eleven European countries despots wipe their feet upon the prostrate bodies of Liberty and Democracy, though none but Mussolini dares to avow it and to boast of profaning the twin goddesses in be half of whom Woodrow Wilson summoned this country...
...thought her at least equal to Mrs. Pat Crimpbell. Ellen Terry, in their most glorious days. She was recalled ten times-the greatest demonstration since Sarah Bernhardt's appearance. She tried to make a speech but found herself choked with uncontrollable emotion. The audience continued to cheer, to wipe its eyes, to cheer Miss Frederick's mother seated in a stall, to cheer the floral wreaths as they were offered...