Word: bent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great was the regret of short, round-faced Boss O'Connell when the spatter of bullets broke the peace of his demesne on an early morning of last week. Into the heart of "The Gut" had marched Prohibition Agents Irving Washburn and Wilfred Grisson, bent on arrest. Suddenly, a group swarmed from an open doorway. Guns were drawn, fired. Agent Grisson escaped uninjured. But Agent Washburn fell to the pavement, mortally wounded...
Picklepackers, gathered at Chicago, gave way to general rejoicing. They hailed the creation of a new market, a substitute for the free lunch counters which vanished with prohibition. Thanks to the nation's womanhood, bent on reducing, the industry is convalescent...
...that; the wily Republican leaders are holding back this asset to spring after Houston has nominated Al Smith. Or maybe Mr. Hoover will retire to the country side to take a few secret lessons from the champion fly-caster of the world. There is even a possibility that the bent pin and the tin can of worms may be called into play at the strategical moment to swing the farmers into line...
Clifford Lambie Derick, Assistant Professor of Medicine. In recent years he has been connected with the Peter Bent Brigham and Rockefeller Hospitals in New York City...
Seemingly the rash students were bent upon egging Prime Minister Velja Vukitchevitch of Jugoslavia into a suicidal war with Italy; but circumstances were not lacking to extenuate their folly...