Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...camp-meeting ground is not a clutter of triple-porched cottages named Bidawee, Restawhile, or Dewdrop Inn, as you state in your article...
...House, for the first hour after Speaker Rainey banged it to order at high noon, pomp was scarce. The Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms placed the mace on the Speaker's desk in the midst of what looked like a camp meeting. There was much slapping of backs, swapping of stories, speculating about November when all 435 members will have to stand for reelection, sniffing at the lady members' bouquets, sniffling over the six who had died since the special session ended in June...
...build log cabins, fish ponds, and other attractions on certain land he owned. He lived there in the Park Lodge till he built himself a house (out of boulders) across from his swimming pool. The War boosted Medicine Park which was the nearest amusement place to the training camp at Fort Sill. In 1925 Thomas sold Medicine Park, and according to Oklahoma tradition, did well by the sale: made a good profit and still owns a ponderous mortgage on the land. Meanwhile Thomas rose in politics, served in the State Legislature, in 1923 was sent to Congress...
...which he spoke, a meeting of the American Statistical Association, and twelve kindred societies convening simultaneously in Philadelphia, was good proof that U. S. economic illiteracy is no longer quite so black as it once was. For of nearly 5,000 men present at the great annual economic camp meeting the public for the first time recognized perhaps half a dozen names of notable economists among a list which included (besides Colonel Ayres) Edwin W. Kemmerer, Irving Fisher, George F. Warren, Oliver M. W. Sprague, James Harvey Rogers, Mordecai J. B. Ezekiel, Rexford Guy Tugwell...
...disobeys orders so that he may soar up to the sun and then swoop down on the tall of some unsuspecting Hun. He breaks all records of bringing down enemy planes, and then he goes to pieces after killing a young German aviator who had down over the American camp to bring a note telling that a wounded American aviator was on the way to recovery and in the hands of friendly Germans. More slop and pre-civil war wisecracks until the war ends, and the Ace of Aces returns to the yellow as yellow chalk girl. Richard Dix continues...