Word: bores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newton, Jasper County, Ill., one Mrs. Flossie Jones struggled, sweat, yielded a girl baby. Labor pains ceased not. So her husband, deputy sheriff, carried her across the boundary line to Effingham, Effingham County. Six hours later she bore...
...President as well as a lost boy's father to be present at its dedication. It was a memorial to the 1,700 Mercersburg graduates who served in the War, 55 of whom died. Designed by that most fashionable of academic architects, Ralph Adams Cram of Boston, it bore in its belfry a carillon of 43 bells, first in Pennsylvania, second largest in the U. S., presented by President H. B. Swoope of the Mercersburg Alumni Association, who had supplied British bell-makers an extraordinary collection of metal scraps to be melted into music-a widow's mite...
...Parrish - Harper ($2). Pippa did not prevaricate; all's well with the world. Here is a story which begins and ends on that vast plain inhabited by the innumerable Smiths that you see in the telephone book, the Chevrolets, the shaving mirror-the moderately comfortable, easygoing, unawakened small-bore men and their fussing, darning, worrying, loving wives. Martin and Emelie Smith are as concerned over the whereabouts of a pet pipe, moths in the clothes trunk, the working of the front door latch, the "niceness" of a family party (the only kind they ever achieve) as they are convinced...
...Heard, 1928 quarterback, ran back a punt 30 yards to, the Senior 20-yard mark, and half a dozen slashes through the line took the ball across the line, Barbee tallying on the last plunge. In the second and fourth quarters, sustained offenses yielded two touchdowns, and another drive bore fruit in the form of a field goal from the 20-yard streak...
...Western world. Originally a box-manufacturer in Michigan, he had tried all indoor sports and wearied of them through sheer dexterity. He had bowled and become a champion. The ping and pong of pingpong, in all their manifold trajectories, were so simple to his touch that it became a bore for him to play with most people, unless he had a book to read at the same time. His bureau drawers were cluttered with medals for billiards, his shelves with cups for golf. He went off around the world...