Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Smith, Governors Ritchie of Maryland and Moore of New Jersey, and Senator Edwards of New Jersey, sat on top of a tall tallyho and paraded through Camp Moore at Sea Girt, N. J. An escorting horseman let his mount sidle into one of the coach's four horses. The coach horses reared, swerved. The tallyho tipped sharply, on two wheels. Nominee Smith and friends clutched their seats. Driver Charles Die reined the horses, straightened the coach. No one was hurt...
...Copper Camp. California roared in the '40s, but Montana did its roaring while the East was enjoying the elegant '80s. In 1870, only 241 men and women were staking their fortunes on the 6-foot pit in the earth which two prospectors had discovered six years earlier. They were tapping surface veins of gold and silver. They did not suspect that the real wealth of Montana's barren hills lay deeper in the earth...
Fiercely, Miner Clark fought with Miner Daly. They battled for land titles, for the tribal leadership of the outlaw camp. All through the '90s, while Montana was becoming a state, the enemies sparred for position. Clark's great triumph came in 1899. With $431,000, his lieutenants bought him a seat in the U. S. Senate. Their slogan: "Every man who votes for Clark is to be paid, and the men who vote for him without being paid are fools." After he was elected, he poured $30,000 worth of champagne into Helena, the capital...
...Each summer freshmen at the Pennsylvania State College summer forestry camp are made to eat a dish of rattlesnake. African Negroes relish boa-constrictors...
...help you by suggesting that you restudy the entire Ten Commandments, as those Heaven-given precepts have been vastly useful in the past in creating and preserving good order in civil society. I have seen with a considerable degree of satisfaction your vigorous action against the gamblers and their camp followers, the prostitutes and bootleggers, up Saratoga way since some of us began prodding into your 'record'; though I regret that some of this holy zeal and energy has not been expended in our own beautiful city and before you became a candidate for President of the United...