Word: licked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guardsmen, weary of the eight-week fray, wanted to go home and lick their wounds in private. Democrats also craved a respite; the charge, false or true, that their action on the tariff was largely responsible for the stockmarket crash and business uncertainty made them skittish about pressing their victories...
...Sand Lick, Ky., one Henry Harp worked on the roads. Lightning cracked, knocked Mr. Harp down, split his false teeth...
...three days thousands of men, haggard with weariness, blackened with smoke and cinders, struggled to keep the fire back. Sometimes the wind swung round to aid them, sometimes it veered against them, drove the flames across firebreaks to lick at the nearest roofs. The gas mains burst in Mill Valley. The water supply dribbled out. Two pump engines were hustled to Cascade Canyon to drain an abandoned reservoir. Refugees clogged the roads. Red Cross stations sprang up to treat the injured, house the homeless...
Died. Mrs. Adele Wilson Pringle Taggart of French Lick, Ind., daughter-in-law of late Boss Democrat Thomas Taggart; at French Lick...
When Baker Krusack hears about Louie and how Jencic is accepting defeat in love, he promises to fire Jencic if he does not lick Louie at once, and without getting drunk first...