Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machine turned over a couple of times and I never saw it again. I walked the rest of the way to my home, a mile and a half. The place was a complete wreck. I found my daughter-in-law sitting up, dazed, and she died while I tried to talk to her. Her two daughters were 25 feet away, dead. My wife and mother were there, too, dead. Nearby was my 21-year-old-son, Fred. He was dead. Near him was my daughter Margaret. She was 16 two days ago and she was dead. My other daughter...
...false gods everywhere-an impious Mullet; a stertorous Turtle, like an island; a Siren, scaled in emerald, with a pearl loin-rope and breasts of mother-of-pearl. She told Sturly that Beauty was God, but vanished when he asked her to reconcile Life with Death. (The wreck of a Corsican mail packet heightened this central paradox; for the long pilgrim Sharks came and a Cuttlefish lifted a lady's dress, seeking his dinner...
...Berlin, a grand caterwaul was raised. It was alleged, not without reason, that to pay the Rumanian bill would be to create a dangerous precedent ; for other ex-enemy countries might well demand special payments outside the Experts' Plan and saddle Germany with debts that would wreck the Plan, which was designed to collect all that is collectable from...
...priesthood, but he crossed himself and went out to lick the boys. His first fight was with Joe Choinyski, whom he calls "one of the gamest and best fighters that ever lived"-a slugging match on a raft in San Francisco Bay. Then he made a wreck out of Jake Kilrain, was matched with John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston. Sullivan "fell hopelessly on the ground, on his stomach, and rolled over on his back." After that battle, Corbett made milk famous all over the world by drinking a glass of it to celebrate his victory. Came...
...Must Live is one of those anti-journalism diatribes in which the spotless hero is driven by his wicked editor to ferreting facts which wreck young ladies' and old mothers' lives. One of the young ladies he loves; one of them dies. The end is sweetness. Richard Dix plays the hero. The picture is not recommended...