Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readers which are many in this city alone, that Eddie did not have to, Nor did he run them out. . . . The newspaper reporters who were here will tell you that I am the one and only one that steadfastly refused to allow that news to be spread in the camp-and that I and Doak Carter almost came to blows in his room that I had the proprietor of the Fort Stanwix Hotel give him free of cost-we fought one argument after another till...
...afternoon of June 3, Arthur Maillefert, 22. of Westfield. N. J., serving nine years for stealing $30. was found strangled to death in the "sweatbox" of Duval County's Sunbeam prison camp. A sweatbox is a windowless outdoor solitary confinement cell little bigger than a coffin. According to Florida law it should be 3 ft. broad. There should be ventilation. Arthur Maillefert. called "Jersey" by his prison mates, had passed the previous evening in the sweatbox naked and inside a barrel out of which he tried to gnaw. He had also used a trusty's knife...
...already spied Mary Astor. the ultra-refined wife of his new engineer. Gene Raymond. While Miss Astor snubs the coarse Harlow, Gable doctors Raymond through an attack of tropical fever, leers Astorwards, lays his plans. Upon Raymond's recovery he sends him off to set up a construction camp sufficiently far away from the plantation to make commuting impossible. His leers mount in ferocity and effectiveness and Mary Astor succumbs, loses her self respect, gets sloppy. Harlot Harlow discovering that she has taste if not morals, becomes contemptuous of them both. The Harlow taste at length infects Gable...
...From frozen solidly into the drifting ice pack, Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen headed north with dog sleds and kayaks to see how far they could get. Though they did not reach the Pole, they went 320 kilometers farther north than anyone else had been. Then they had to camp out for the rest of the winter. They got used to cold: when it rose to 18° below Zero Nansen sweated so much in his sleeping-bag he could hardly sleep. On the return trip the dogs died or had to be killed. Once their kayaks, with all their possessions...
...ragged Freshman Soccer team took a strong Worcester Academy aggregation into camp by a score of 3 to 1. Goal-guard Perry played an outstanding game while the scoring of L. H. Manheimer was a big feature of the game. Harvard scored in the first period when a march down the field by the 1936 men ended in a beautiful goal by Manheimer. Again in the second period F. W. Vincent Jr. managed to kick the ball through Nemez, Worcester goal guard, to bring the score to two for the Freshmen. In the same period the prep school boys achieved...