Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moonfaced" am I? Because of that three minutes I did in Tobacco Road as a result of my run-in with John Barton, I've been resigned to being called "Jeeter" the rest of my days, but now you have to come along and call me "moonfaced" (TIME...
Only four days before, faithful Pat Harrison had given one of his best performances. Out of the White House he had stepped, dragged lustily on a banana-sized cigar, said: "Government receipts are making such a showing as to gladden our hearts. ... It may be that we can get along without a tax bill...
...Spinning along a Washington highway this week, Justice McReynolds' car hit a bump, sloughed into a telephone pole guy wire. Unscathed, the Justice gruffed: "I feel quite chipper...
...newsgatherer, Whitsitt is trusted to go pretty much where he pleases in the prison, pesters the life out of turnkeys and wardens alike for items. But what buzzes along the prison grapevine, wise Lifer Whitsitt lets severely alone. One night last fortnight the grapevine crackled with details of an attempted jailbreak, in which six escaping prisoners killed a guard. Of this black-type story, the Radio Gazette has broadcast not a peep. Says young Lifer Whitsitt: "I'm no Walter Winchell...
...Boundary Against Night (1938) was an ambitious, untidy, talented novel about the Boston Police Strike, included two Bannon brothers among its characters. White Sails Crowding is told by an earlier Bannon. No less high-blooded but tidier, it is a deliberately old-fashioned story of romantic adventure along the Grand Banks...