Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...settler, a French trader named Pierre Moreau, was a bootlegger as far back as 1675. Before Indians and bears had been driven from the log village in the 1830s, gamblers, harlots, pimps had arrived. Thieves preyed even on the dead: private detectives guarded Chicago's early graveyards. Between Bull Run and the great fire of 1871 roared the first of Chicago's incredible booms, in which everything but the police force expanded. Result was Chicago's reputation in the Civil War decade as "the wickedest city...
...flatly to cut it out, sat comfortably down to dinner. Suddenly the train slowed, stopped. Willkie's voice boomed through the dining-car loudspeaker. He had sighted another cluster of voters. Dr. Barnard sighed, got up, switched off the loudspeaker so that he could enjoy his food. But bull-healthy Mr. Willkie laughed last, if somewhat hoarsely. Dr. Barnard, in the vehemence of his pleading, lost his own voice. An epidemic of colds swept the train, but Willkie stayed well...
Time was called twice while Chief Umpire Bill Summers and Indian Manager Oscar Vitt begged the fans to stop. They were in no mood to stop. Wham! A bushel basket full of tomatoes dropped from the upper grandstand into the Tiger bull pen. Apparently aimed at Schoolboy Rowe, it scored a direct hit on Birdie Tebbetts, alternate catcher, who was chatting with Rowe. Tebbetts was knocked unconscious...
Before the Civil War, when most citizens still doubted that there would be a war, U. S. Army privates rated $13 a month. Then war came after all, the Confederates scared the Yankees at Bull Run, and Union privates got a $100 bounty for enlisting. In 1864, when conscription had at last been voted, pay rose to $14.87. Ma jor General Ulysses Simpson Grant by then was winning the war and buying his salutary whiskey on $2,640 a year (plus keep, four servants). As a lieutenant gen eral and later a full general he received...
...shape, a pulley weight to flatten his waistline. Mandel, feared in politics for his thoroughgoing dossiers of the careers of France's great and near-great, asked for pen, ink, paper. Daladier, whom the war strain turned from a fairly pleasant individual into a red-faced, moody old bull, was more taciturn than ever. In the daylight he scrawled a lengthy history of his record in office to present to the court...