Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made their way to Park Avenue. By this time police men in commandeered taxicabs were in pursuit. Shots stopped one, wounding two policemen and the driver. The fleeing taxi crossed the Harlem River into Manhattan and made its way to Riverside Drive, leaving two more wounded pedestrians in its wake. Up Riverside Drive it roared, pursued by police taxis. At Dyckman Street, twelve miles from the holdup scene, it was stopped by a truck. Policemen riddled it with bullets and flung open the doors. Out tumbled the taxi driver, dead, and inside were two dead bandits...
Thirteen hours after the Winnie Mae left Harbor Grace (see p. 32) another plane sped in its wake, a white Bellanca with red wings, the name Liberty and the crossed flags of Denmark and U. S. on its side. The Danish flag stood for youthful Pilot Holger Hoiriis's native land. Liberty is the name of the little town in New York's Catskills where German-born Otto Hillig, 55, owner of the plane, amassed modest wealth as a summer resort photographer. Now these two were going home in style: the big, taciturn, painfully bashful Dane...
...Germany wake up! Brüning crack...
When Mr. Murphy (Arthur Sinclair of Mr. Gilhooley) arrives in the U. S. things begin humming. He embarrasses his daughter-in-law by attacking the English butler with a shoe, consorts with the shanty Irish in the Patch. He is delighted to attend a bountiful wake where "they were carrying the food away in bags, whiskey flowed like water and everybody was praying like the Twelve Apostles." Mr. Murphy, whose voice another character describes as sounding "like His Holiness himself over the radio," succeeds in rounding up the Irish vote for his son, straightening out the affairs of his Americanized...
...Prohibition from its sociologic aspects the committee hopes to find its effect upon the American civilization. This is a logical approach, for the amendment was passed primarily as a social benefit. From a layman's view it has not been successful as such, and it has brought in its wake a host of political and economic evils. It will lie within the province of the committee, to ascertain the real benefits and the real evils which have accrued from prohibition, and to offer if possible correctives...