Word: remnants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jerry's charm was as shady as his sleek hair, his mesalliance and divorce, his cocktail apartment, his never mentioned publishing business (pornography). But Gay's family's intervention was not all that kept them apart the first time. There was Dolly Quinn. What remnant of decency Jerry had was in his feeling for her, a dance-hall hostess who really would not be kissed...
...single man, woman or child," ordered onetime Governor (now Flood Relief Director of Louisiana) John Milliken Parker last week, as flood waters broke through into central and southern Louisiana. Even as he was speaking, from 500 to 700 men, women and children were marooned on a twelve-mile remnant of what had been a 50-mile levee along the Bayou de Glaize. Scores of rescue boats struggled toward them...
...lavender and old lace, those interested may pause to inquire--just what is the destination of the Harvard Dramatic Club? As the sole survivor of non-musical theatricals in the University it has enviable opportunities to create for itself a public which shall honor it as the last remnant of a rich tradition. But those opportunities have yet to be fulfilled in accordance with their merits...
...dragged forth the finger's hand and the forearm, a right one, to which the hand belonged. There was no body. Affrighted the children's parents summoned authorities, who smelled the medical laboratory solution used to pickle anatomical specimens and then decided that frolicsome medical students had "planted" the remnant to hoax Philadelphia police...
...courts. Yet Sutter shook the whole country and enriched lawyers for a generation to come. He sued California for 25 millions, the U. S. for 50 millions. Years passed before he got his decision. Immediately the gold-world paused in its shoveling to raze Sutter's remnant buildings, to hang his friend...