Word: accidentally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
ķA 100-pound watermelon, perambulating in a tin washtub was sighted by railroad men at Fitchburg, Mass. They told reporters. Agog at its clearing papers, which named President Coolidge as the addressee, the reporters heralded by wire the approach to White Court of the ponderous aqueous gourd. ķAt...
An investigation was ordered, but the accident was claimed to have been part of the inevitable fractional toll exacted by the mere fact of using firearms.
At Camp Grant On the old rifle range at Camp Grant, Ill., two miles from the cantonment, a Negro regiment of the Illinois National Guard was engaged in routine practice with a one-pound Howitzer. Servicing of the gun was proceeding without accident, as on countless former occasions. Black bodies...
*The accident naturally recalled the several motor smashes that involved correspondents accompanying Presidents Wilson and Harding. On the former's League of Nations swing to the Pacific Coast, three press employes were injured, one killed. During the Harding trip to Alaska, two more were injured, one killed, victims of a...
An accident befell a little girl, Elna Barnes. Her father decided not to play. Macfarlane, who has been going to an occulist all year because his altering sight had effected his putting, found that he had to have his glasses changed. Brady, for reasons unmentioned, also withdrew. So of the...