Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marker Buoys. Foreign submarines have marker buoys, containing telephones, which bob to the surface when released from within. The Navy Department said such buoys had been removed from U.S. submarines during the War because depth charges sometimes released the buoys from outside, betraying submarine positions...
...Senators, the youngest is one of the most troublesome to the regular Republicans. "Young Bob" LaFollette, chubby, shy and 33, does his young best to carry on as his Progressive father carried on before him. He was scheduled to reintroduce his resolution of last spring condemning presidential third terms. From the Democratic point of view it might seem like sending a boy on a man's errand to let "Young Bob" do this. But sometimes a boy does better than a man, especially on a saucy errand. Through "Young Bob" the Democrats will see their purpose served without loading themselves...
...murder in the first degree", declared Bob Lampoon, the incomparable jester, grand vizier and high lama at all of Lampy's festive functions. "When vandals slunk down under cover of a black and windy night and sever the life's blood of a tree, cherished by me for over three years, it is then time for the Cambridge Police to send in riot calls, and to deal death in the Brattle Square Police Station without the fruitless efforts of a trial...
...that a new tree, an elm in fact, is going to be planted on the site of his old favorite, he is beginning to show signs of his erstwhile cheerfulness. The famous picalo, laid away in the dust of Lampy's attic for many months, will be played by Bob at the laying of the corner-root. "This ceremony will be the most impressive that has ever been conducted since John Harvard staked out his claim by the banks of the Charles," admitted the Lampoon wit who is in complete charge of the dedication. "The elm is some ten feet...
...meantime, there is nought but a sordid hole in the sidewalk with a row of vesper lanterns being burnt as an offering to the soul of the departed and, as Bob remarked, looking at the upturned cage with its iron spikes, "to save the boys pants from being torn on Saturday nights...