Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silver medal would be struck in honor of the Legion's visit. Out came the bunting and the banners of welcome all over the city. Signposts in English would direct the former doughboys to the sights of Paris. And immediately those sights began to take on colorful decorations. From base to summit the Eiffel Tower would be a blaze of electric lights. And forthwith the Champs Elysees began to erect two chains of bulbs, six inches apart, from the Arc de Triomphe clear down to the Place de la Concorde. Far more than 100,000 extra electric lights will...
...operative stores and native industries in many a cove and inlet of that grisly coast. The Indian Harbor Hospital, founded in 1894, is about 200 miles north of Battle Harbor, where Dr. Grenfell began his work two years earlier. The Marabel was to have assisted, from the Indian Harbor base, the coastwise dispensary service long rendered by the Battle Harbor hospital ship, Strathcona...
...bulletin: SACCO MURDERED! (Loud but orderly cries of indignation, booes, catcalls. But no fiercer than the noise that a 10,000 base ball-crowd makes when a favorite disappoints. Flares and the Internationale, which soon died...
...More correctly, One Old Cat. This game is derived from baseball, is played with batting and fielding, changing by rotation rather than by inning. Any number, usually not more than five, can play. As a batter is put out on the run from home to first base and back to home, he moves into the position of the most remote fielder...
Hero. A fierce, tropical storm was raging when orders came for the five U. S. bombers to soar up from their base at Managua and succor the 39 marines besieged in Ocotal. He who led the bombers through the storm was 42-year-old Major Ross Erastus ("Rusty") Rowell, an airman only four years in the service...