Word: along
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Didn't he play tennis once? Didn't he sail a rowboat around the world or something? But the man I cannot place, though I suppose I should, is Skipper Harry Pigeon of Los Angeles. What did he do? Why should he be given an Olympic diploma along with Lindbergh and Gerbault (TIME, Aug. 6)? I have no doubt whatever that he deserved it, but being something of a hero-worshipper I would like a description of just what "Potent Pigeon" accomplished that I have overlooked in the glorious annals of American sportsmanship...
...Representatives, along the banks of the Ohio River. Grapegrower Garrett looks at least as far into the future, sees the U. S. once more a temperance nation...
...make it. ..." but he was content that his neighbors, of long standing feud, were with the enemy Yanks. And there were others, non-fighters: The congressmen came out to see Bull Run, The congressmen who like free shows and spectacles, They brought their wives and carriages along, They brought their speeches and their picnic-lunch, Their black constituent-hats and their devotion: Some even brought a little whisky, too. (A little whisky is a comforting thing For congressmen in the sun, in the heat of the sun.) The bearded congressmen with orators' mouths The fine, clean-shaved, Websterian congressmen...
...against too much sentimentality, so she flounders miserably through a crush on the high school football hero, a passionate affair with a marine sergeant (1916), and a restful flirtation with a traveled gentleman, until finally she contracts a commonplace marriage with the silent man who had loved her all along. Adventures with football star, hearty marine and grey-haired oldster fell drably short of the tales of knights and ladies, her childhood favorites. But, after all, the lady, though golden-haired, was a stenographer. Author Weaver* still writes New Yorkese correctly, effectively. But he pieces it out with stilted paragraphs...
...buried under two feet of water. "I was sleeping soundly at the time, but awoke suddenly to find myself lying jammed up against a bureau across the room from my bunk. The reason for this rude awakening was that I had been thrown clear over the canvas strip attached along the bed to prevent just such an accident. . . . "The slant of the boat was so great that the electric refrigerator refused to work and we were obliged to salt down the meat in order to keep it from spoiling." She told about two wire-haired fox terriers: "Nip developed...