Word: writhing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreement concluded at the 1936 naval conference, the U. S., France and Britain are to exchange information on their building plans. Presumably, they also exchanged what little information they had about Japan's plans, which are supposed despite denials to include monster 46,000-ton capital ships writh 18-inch guns...
High in the backwoods 14 miles from the Tennessee River opposite Guntersville, Ala. lived 75-year-old Grandma Georgia LeMaster, a shrunken little woman writh a thin, still face and hands like corded leather. Mrs. LeMaster set great store by her grandson's shepherd dog, a big black mongrel named Nero. One day last week, Nero was disporting himself on the public highway. Along came Houston Sims, driving over Grassy Mountain in his car. There was a yelp, and when Mrs. LeMaster got to the road, Nero was dying in the dust...
Against him stood Charles Lou Smith, a political youngster of 41 of good family and background, who once was a star quarterback at the University of Washington. His only notable public job had been as Seattle's assistant city attorney. A chubby little man writh a winning smile and a red-headed wife, he took his political platform from the church people of the city who complained of Seattle's vice and gambling, perennial issue in most seaport cities...
...Lyon. They caught the midnight express for Italy. Early the next day they were across the border, whizzing through mountains among which run great electric power lines. Ivar Kreuger passed through that countryside many times on his trips to Rome for secret transactions. Alfred Lowenstein played financial chess writh Italian power projects until he plunged from an airplane into the English Channel...
...wish facts back of newspaper articles (accompanied in case of Minneapolis Journal, evening edition, May 30 by photographs of three children). Statement is that three children of Charles Feagan called on President Hoover, asserted their father was innocent of a crime writh which he was charged; that within an hour of the children's interview with Hoover, the father was released on personal bond...