Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wild-eyed woman, her large face splashed with her husband's blood, sat at the edge of a prize-ring, screaming something. "Hit him in the slats, Bob," said she, addressing her husband, Pugilist Robert Fitzsimmons, "in the slats." In the 14th round, he took her advice, let his left try the middle of his debonair, dancing opponent; the referee's arm rose and fell: James J. Corbett ceased to be heavyweight champion...
...Christmas matinee, going to another dance; and what with municipal Christmas trees, stuffed store windows, red Santas on the street corners and grimy urchins in the alleys, the metropolite has Yuletide sports aplenty. In the country there are house-to-housing, dialing, village Christmas trees, bob-hitching behind autos, fashionable coasting at the country club, taking of pictures of the house, going to another dance, telephoning the neighbors. . . . Here and there the yule-log is still drawn and the waits sing. Here and there the bowl flows and there is good talk instead of bad bridge. But where is Flapdragon...
...There is one feature of Zionism which is particularly interesting," went on Professor Munro, "There are a number of Russian Jews, who call themselves 'pioneers'. They emigrated to Palestine, and are farming the country with striking success. These young men and women, the latter of whom bob their hair, are between 20 and 30 years old, and dress and act very much like college men and girls in America. They are the most virile part of the movement, but they are not Jewish by religion. They are free thinkers...
...visit Pagopago (Samoa), Auckland and Wellington (N. Z.), Sydney and Melbourne (Australia), returning to Honolulu on Sept. 10. The fleet will be by far the must powerful U. S. Armada which has ever plowed the waters surrounding the sixth Continent, considerably outweighing the fleet which Robley D. ("Fighting Bob") Evans took around the world in Roosevelt's time...
...would cast "aspersions" at "Fighting Bob" La Folette's head, to fall into the Idom of the worthy Mrs. Malaprop. But followers of the shock-headed Senator may have seen an occult attempt to derogate when, just before the election, well known newspapers published a statement by a French scientist that great brains are usually small...