Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preacher and long head of the Anti-Saloon League in woefully wet Illinois, will now have to battle singlehanded the causes of "crooks and bribery," which U. S. Prohibition Commissioner Lowman says are "rampant" in the Federal enforcement system. Last week, Dr. McBride was known to be picking a band of dry workers to rush into southern and midwestern states whence ominous sentiment has been issuing in favor of the wet presidential candidate, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith. In Indiana. Not in the least helpful to Dr. McBride were sounds issuing last week from Indiana. With the trial for alleged corruption...
...Caledonia, Ohio, he used to belong to the "Chain Gang." This small village, close to Marion, Ohio, held also a band of boys calling themselves the "Stunners." The two gangs fought continually and thus became lifelong friends. Dan Crissinger of the "Chain Gang" was obliged " to milk cows before school, feed cows and chop wood after school. And one day Dan Crissinger literally "monkeyed with the buzzsaw" in his father's lumber mill. His hand was crippled so badly for farm work that his father saw the wisest thing would be to train the boy's mind. Therefore...
...playwrighting the fumble is converted into a lateral pass to the leading comedian (Gus Shy, who really is funny). Thus, the game is won; future generations of Tait undergraduates will be able to hold up their heads before the world, and everybody marries in Junior year. George Olsen's band makes the music?in the pit and on the stage. Zelma O'Neal does an educated black bottom, called the campus drag, which explains why some fellows will never, never leave Tait...
...ceremony of donating the memorial volume was attended with usual pomp. In the Salon of Letters, Arts and Sciences in the Hotel de Ville a distinguished group of political, industrial, artistic luminaries stood stiffly at attention as a band blared "God Save the King" and the "Marseillaise," after which the Golden Book was presented to Sir Austen by Louis Delsol. President of the Paris Municipal Council, with these words...
...finally gave up. One man was seized with mumps. Edward Keating, winner of the Lake George marathon, was dragged out, cramped. Lee J. Smith, legless swimmer, lost his chance for the prize by rescuing a drowning opponent. Byron Summers, the California "flying fish," swam to the tune of a band in his boat, swam many miles, caught cramps when in second place. Ethel Hertle, 15 miles out and in third place, collapsed with cold. Edith Heden, Finn, screamed with pain and was taken out, bitten by eels. "Women have a horror of that sort of thing. It makes them sick...