Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance, in Cicero, III. In Cicero men are not only men: they are gunmen. And similarly in other communities--in bloody Herrin, in Canton, and of course in the metropolitan centers. It would and it will when the time comes--take a better system than the present one to wipe out the invisible ring of crime which encircles this country. Such citizens as Scarface Al Camponi and his ilk are unfortunately a product of American legal and judicial conditions. So the logical deduction is that they will be removed only by change in those conditions...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important. SERIOUS THE GREAT GOD BROWN-Eugene O'Neill's powerful if sometimes confusing report of how one man bought another's brains. CRAIG'S WIPE-A portrait of that woman down the street whose house is so scrupulously clean that you are chilled to enter it. LULU BELLE-Lenore Ulric as a black rowdy who sails away to Paris with a French vicomte. LESS SERIOUS CRADLE SNATCHERS-Ribald doings on Long Island when three mad young men and three bad elderly ladies...
...bonds. They do not tell how later the anecdote was offered to Uncle Joe Cannon as recommendation for Congressman Weeks' candidacy for the Naval Affairs Committee. "My God," said Uncle Joe, "We'll put him on the Banking and Currency. That man with those methods will soon wipe out the national debt." Mr. Weeks alone possessed the honor of having one of his big appropriation bills ($240,000,000) pass both houses unaltered...
...some 6,000 fighting men under command of Sultan El Atrash Pasha, have sufficiently demonstrated their ability to keep the 20,000 French and French colonial troops sent against them from pacifying Syria. It is conceded by experts that with 30,000 more French troops, General Andreas could probably wipe out the Druses...
...Yale we still have the class, and it will take more than an increase in numbers entirely to wipe out that traditional division. But at Harvard they have been trying to work out a solution of the large college problem, the student council committee on education proposing to the university that a group of small college units be formed, such as grew up historically at Oxford and Cambridge. The Harvard undergraduates have been voting on this, and have declined to back their council on the plan in this first public consideration of it. It is certainly not a solution that...