Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Look, in this place ran Caraway's dagger through;
Through this the son of a wild jackass stabbed;
A good diplomatist must be a pinch-hitter. Pinch-hitting was what President Hoover wanted of Assistant Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr. when he sent him to bat last week as U. S. Ambassador to Japan. Mr. Castle was expected to make one hit and get back to...
Several other people had stumbled on the party in the corridor. One of them, George A. Durnford, the head keeper, had been shot and killed when he tried to run. A keeper named David Winney had dodged the bullets by falling down and rolling through a doorway. He had sent...
Vignettes of blood on snow: a man in a guard's blue jacket and reefer, his long, impassive face, with its heavy eyebrows, oblique eyes, long upper lip and thin mouth pushed into the ground, lying dead, his head pointed toward freedom. That was Convict Sullivan in clothes he had...