Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next Sergeant Jurney drove across the Potomac River to Alexandria, Va. to ask whether Mr. Hopson was staying at a small hotel there. He was not. Thereupon Sleuth Jurney good-naturedly treated his camp followers to beer and a fish supper, at a cost of $16 borrowed from a deputy on the understanding that it would be charged to their expense account...
Snapped an aide-de-camp of Governor General de Bono: "Anybody who thinks Mussolini is only bluffing should ride over the strategic highways and bridges we have built and are building. Italy does not spend millions and bring 125,000 men to Africa for bluff...
Fortnight ago Post and Rogers reached Juneau in their synthetic Lockheed, flew on to Dawson, Aklavik, Fairbanks, Anchorage. They visited the Government's Matanuska Valley farm colony, were on their way to Point Barrow when they came down one evening in a river near an Eskimo camp to inquire their way. Post tinkered the motor and after dining ashore with the natives, they took off for the ten-minute flight to Point Barrow. The plane had soared about 50 ft. when the motor sputtered. Post banked steeply to the right in a desperate effort to get back...
Habitual loafers on Boston Common know enough not to be alarmed by anything that happens in that calm and curious little park. Last week, however, they were mildly surprised to see a collection of 100 or so women congregate, sit down on camp chairs and start furiously to knit. The knitting turned out to be part of Boston's tercentenary celebration and it commemorated a spinning contest held there 182 years ago which ended in a riot when some 600 Boston husbands took exception to the distribution of prizes. Last week, loafers on the Common waited hopefully...
...neatly-landscaped ten-acre plot outside Portland, Ore. the 29th annual camp meeting of the Apostolic Faith began late in June. From States as far off as Pennsylvania and New York its adherents gathered, setting up quarters in 500 tents. They fed themselves at the camp ground's restaurant or bought their victuals from its stores. They knew better than to wear low-necked dresses or to use tobacco or alcohol. Zealous believers in a God whose Son might return to earth any minute, they prayed, sang, shouted night after night until last week when two husky ministers ducked...