Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...band again. More precinct returns. More courtesy to the dead. The two twin-bellies roll in time to the music. The bellies never bump; the owners attached stand six feet away from each other...
...campaign room, a dozen precinct captains swarm around the phone. Each wears a round badge, patriotically decorated in red, white, and blue, also with green, yellow, and purple, thrown in to make it attractive. An enormously fat bull-dog with a hide that was once white, rolls on the floor in the havoc of cigar-butts, torn posters, and dirt. He slouches away from one of the campaign managers. He upsets the spittoon. "Jesus, Curley, watch it!" one of the cigar-chewers admonishes...
...District and precinct your members under leaders, classify your manpower as to its usefulness in a year of concentrated patriotism. Let the brains of the builders be as active as the brains of the wreckers...
...tornado. He became the largest single owner of pear orchards in the state, bought the Medford News, boldly declared himself a candidate for the U. S. Senate against Senator Charles L. McNary, stumped the State in an automobile with California license plates. He failed to carry a single precinct, but his name carried to every Oregon ear. Soon he was buying and selling pears for other growers, paying them more than he promised, making himself the man of the hour. Through his newspaper read with the Bible by small farmers and hillbillies, he led attacks on the Farmers' Exchange...
...Fourth Precinct desk sergeant's telephone tinkled. Those Negroes over on School Street, someone said, were at it again. It had been going on three months. Everyone else who lived around there was sick of it. A John Doe warrant was filled out and soon School Street was clanging with police patrols from six precincts. The police entered and found the old factory clean enough. There was a refectory with more than a dozen long tables and a kitchen whose iceboxes burst with pork chops, chickens, choice cuts of beef. There was a large nursery where some pickaninnies slept...