Word: lampposts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stalin was proud of his exploits, proud of the way he darted into Armenian stores, stole what he wanted, fired some shots and ran, leaving men puking blood behind him; proud of the holdup of Tiflis -20 dead; proud of having the guts to toss bombs from a lamppost at fully armed Cossacks; proud of the holdups on mountain roads; proud of inflaming the doubters (he had his picture painted doing it); proud of the mail-train robbery near Rostov, when he hacked his way through the side of the mailcar and had to jump for it with the train...
...rent in its crowded, stinky black-holes is $50 a month; in the city at large, $35. "The first race riot in New York was in 1712. The most recent was in 1935. The last is not yet." But Negroes like their Harlem. ("I'd rather be a lamppost on Lenox Avenue [Harlem's Main Street] than Governor of Georgia...
Leaving a party at Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino at 3 a. m. Louis J. Ehret, 22, grandson of the late Brewer George Ehret, drove his automobile into a Central Park lamppost. His companion, beauteous Eileen Wenzel ("Miss St. Louis" of 1925, lately a Ziegfeld showgirl) was severely cut on the face by glass...
...danced through eight rounds swinging ponderously, getting in a telling left once in a while but no good rights. The crowd was bored. In the last two rounds Carnera tired and Maloney took courageous chances, dropping his defense and swinging hard. It was like a bulldog barking up a lamppost. The referee hoisted Carnera's glove...