Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around her neck, a Spanish husband in tow and a contract for three operatic performances at London's historic Covent Garden. Grace Moore had won the medal for her cinema performance in One Night of Love. Her Covent Garden contract was signed because Londoners were ready to buy camp stools, wait in line 24 hours for tickets to see and hear this U. S. singer...
...with Taylor Henry, son of the Senator, gives the youth a kick in the shin and takes Opal home. Later, grimly stalking the streets, he finds Taylor Henry's body in the gutter. Paul Madvig is accused of murder. Ed Beaumont arranges to have himself invited into the camp of Madvig's enemy, Shad O'Rory, has a hard time getting out. But back he goes, once patched up, calmly watches Shad O'Rory being choked to death...
...plot against his life, the third reported in two months, was discovered. At the Quezon home near Baguio, the summer capital, whither the would-be President will hasten as soon as he reaches Manila, there were unearthed eleven cases of dynamite stolen from a construction camp, enough to blow him far beyond reach of any earthly honors...
...them up through the mountains to a godforsaken spot, set them to work panning for gold dust. After many a long, backbreaking month they each had about $15,000 worth of gold. Just as they were getting ready to leave, another U. S. prospector found their hidden camp, promised them all a fortune if they would stay on with him. They might have been tempted if bandits had not picked up their trail and given them a bad scare before the federal soldiers drove them...
...rawboned country doctor. Through the three floors surged unpowdered women of all ages, many carrying children; coatless young men; sober old men; Scandinavian-looking farmers. They had come from as far away as California, most of them in automobiles and "house-cars" (trailers) which they had parked in a camp far out on Massachusetts Avenue. For five days they crowded Washington Auditorium, fraternizing, listening to speeches, consuming hamburgers with gravy (5?), beef stew (20?), buttermilk (5?), alfalfa tea (5?) in the basement until it was rank with mixed smells. They were "Jehovah's Witnesses"-otherwise known as the International...