Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Puny seem man's efforts at law enforcement when Nature sweeps into the job. The swollen rivers of south Georgia last week, backing up through impenetrable swamps, floated off hundreds of hidden stills and moonshining camps long out of reach of U.S. agents. It was one of the biggest "dry raids" in the State, for the flood did in a few days the work of three times the number of Federal officers now on duty in that region. Literary 'leggers dolefully quoted G. K. Chesterton's Flying...
...afternoon when he heard his name imperiously called from across the creek. The caller was Mr. Stimson's Manhattan law chief, Elihu Root, then Secretary of State. out for an airing with President Roosevelt. Sergeant Stimson of Squadron A. N. Y. National Guard, spurred his horse over the swollen stream, nearly foundered in the middle, clambered up the slippery bank opposite, gave a mud-bespattered salute, reported for duty. President Roosevelt asked him to dine at the White House and later appointed him U. S. District Attorney in Manhattan...
...great day of yes-men, Calvin Coolidge was a great noman. Psychologically as well as financially he sought to be an astringent to his prosperity-swollen country. He took credit for Coolidge prosperity because it was politically expedient to do so, but he kept repeating that Coolidge economy was the priceless ingredient. He carried this thought to the picayune extreme of giving away only the pen nib, and not the pen holder, after signing important bills. The other, philosophical extreme was reached in his curt closing message to Congress and the country last December...
Hunters may fear that they have tularemia if they suddenly feel sharp chills and sweats, if at the same time they have severe headaches, aching pains in the back, hands and feet, prostration. Vomiting, diarrhea and delirium are other signs. Ulcers and swollen lymph glands usually develop...
While the city sleeps, the cops play pinochle in the assembly room and gangsters croak a jeweler on East 37th Street, Manhattan. On the trail of "Mile-Away" Healey, undertaker, suspected murderer, gang-leader, move the swollen feet of Detective Chancy. His face, which successfully suggests the face of an experienced bloodhound, looks through the window of a lunchroom wherein Mile-Away is quarreling with a recent mistress; the same face pushes out of a coffin in Mile-Away's funeral parlors and later appears suddenly in a dark corner of a fur store which Mile-Away...