Word: steals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wops ............Italians Bohunks .............Hungarians and Slavs Polacks ..........Poles Hunkies ............Hungarians Dagoes .........Italians *Later, in jail, Vanzetti fumbled with the fretwork of English idiom, his squinting pen articulating the letter below: ". . . Innocent; I am so. I did not spittel a drop of blood or steal a cent in my life. A little knowledge of the past: a sorrowful experience of life itself had give to me some idears very different from those of many other umane beings. But I wish to convince my fellowman that only with virtue and honesty is possible for us to find a little happiness...
...safe to steal some of their mother's rice-powder? Mrs. Ellison was out laundering at a neighbor's house. Monk got the powder and sprinkled it upon the "daid corpse's" face. Then, whoopIng, he led his followers back to the yard. In 15 minutes Mrs. Ellison came in and laid her clean clothes down on a chair. What she saw on the floor gave her a slight start, but her nerves were good; she chuckled and moved nearer. As she bent over the "corpse" uncertainty replaced the laughter in her generous face; her hand, moving...
Obviously one method is by an appeal to fear. The wary consumer may be convinced that some dread disease will steal upon him if he does not use a certain dentifrice. Most conspicuous in this field of advertising is the Forhan's slogan: "Pyorrhea seizes four out of five...
Next day they had grasped one of the felons, tossed the pirate in the gaol. He confessed, said that he had been hired by a "master mind" to steal a half million dollars' worth of the art treasures; his employer probably intended to use them as models for commercial imitations...
...siht la Etsll iws nel lum cmeht," as meaning, "The municipality cannot aid." The Post and Mail, owned by the McMullen brothers, promptly stole the story in toto, were chagrined to have all Chicago told that the "Serbian" phrase was the printing in reverse of, "The McMullens will steal this sure...