Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Spirits started in the wood last January now should be nearing potability. Last week at dinners in Detroit, Cleveland and Manhattan, young and youngish socialites pulled the bungs, not from swashing charred kegs but from the cask of obscurity within which they have been maturing a potent anti-Prohibition organization...
'Well, Sid . . . after breakfast we'll run down the street and shoot a couple of rounds of Tom Thumb golf. . . . For lunch we're going to the Horwitzes. You remember them. Sadie Horwitz was in your class at school. .
To joke about Chicago's crime-tide has long been the prerogative of colyumists, cartoonists, comedians. Last week a high Federal official joined the game. Munching a lettuce sandwich, sipping milk, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock sat in his office and told Washington newshawks about his recent visit...
"Oi! Oi! Kikeriki!" "Comrades!" roared Communist Deputy Ernst Torgler as the Reichstag convened, "Do you know that working men are being clubbed to the ground outside this building? Donner und Blitz! What a way for this Reichstag to open!" In mass formation, with military tread, eyes front, the 107 new...
Efficiently the police charged. In street after street their method was the same. A double line, stretching from wall to wall, rushed down the street at a run, rubber clubs flailing. Persons who "resisted" or could not get out of the way fast enough were arrested. Nearly all were set...