Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...across the prairie. At last a U. S. regiment fought Geronimo's men, and beat them. Most of the Indians were captured. Those who were not one afternoon rode their little ponies slowly across the border into Mexico, up the steep trails into the mountains, and fortified a camp...
Thus ended the case of the People of Mississippi v. Charles Shepherd, Negro. The case began when one Sergeant J. B. Duvall, guarding prisoners in a Parchman, Miss., convict camp, whipped Negro-Convict Shepherd. Bruised, angry, the black convict entered the Duvall home, attacked Ruth Duvall, 18, onetime beauty-contest winner. Interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Sergeant Duvall, the Negro took a butcher knife, cut the Sergeant's throat, then plunged the knife down the throat he had just slashed. Next he struck the body with an icepick, hitting the back of its head so violently that...
...only like poetry, that's almost as though you wrote it. I love poetry, and that's what makes me write it, I suppose. Well, perhaps you could hardly call it poetry. I mean a Harvard man wouldn't. There's a Princeton fellow who teaches sloyd at the camp on the other side of the lake, and he said that the lines were so filled with--well, he named it right out--passion, that they fairly seethed. Seethed. Well (No, thanks awfully, I'm quite comfortable just here, this way), I admit I had sometimes thought of myself that...
...first, "Berber Tribes of North America", was made in connection with an expedition from the School of Anthropology of Oxford University. The film shows the primitive water-clock, by which these people measure time. The film "Bedouins of the Sahara", shows the life of the nomads both in camp and oasis...
...editor. Jack Shuttleworth joined the staff in 1924. Like Norman Anthony he was born in Buffalo and inhaled the mirth-inspiring atmosphere of that city during his childhood. He tried two other ways to make a living: studied engineering at the University of Cincinnati, worked in a lumber camp in Canada. But Norman Anthony was an old friend, and pointed the way to his salvation with an invitation to come to Judge...