Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the House passed the Patman Bonus bill (209-10-176). The B. E. F. turned its attention to the less friendly Senate. From their Anacostia camp tattered jobless veterans marched by thousands to the Capitol. They packed into the Senate galleries. They flopped down in corridors to nap. They swarmed over the wide Capitol steps. They sprawled on the grass. They packed the plaza. They sang and joked. By dusk there were close to 10,000 of them in & around the Capitol. Shortly after 8 p. m. their comrades in the Senate Chamber flashed out the news?...
...Dempsey] hummed the tune 'Everybody Two-Step,' keeping time with his whole body. . . . Then something fell on my head! It felt like a rafter from the roof. . . ." In the War, Eddie Eagan blacked both eyes of a top-sergeant named Boyle in his San Francisco training camp. He went abroad after the Armistice, fought in Franco-American amateur bouts in Paris. Later he joined the class of 1921 at Yale, won the U. S. amateur heavyweight championship when he was a freshman. At Oxford he coached the Marquis of Clydesdale in boxing, then went world-touring with...
...years these coaches have been summer visitors ... at my Adirondack camp where they have trained boys in both competitive and health exercises. One result is competent medical opinion that if we can give school children spiked running shoes and a place to practice . . . 80% of leg troubles will be straightened out. . . . Simple Delsarte exercises will do much the same thing for the body above the waist line. . . . They will learn the lessons of fairness of the sports field. I think a generation so trained will carry into business some moral principles...
...communicable disease were spotted but were lost in the crowd. The air reeked with filthy smells. Eight men were reported to have died. Food was poor. Scabies broke out. Public health officers declared conditions were "frightful." warned of a "terrible epidemic" which might suddenly fan out from the camp across the city and country. A 24-hour quarantine was set up for new arrivals and a special camp with hospital facilities opened for the sick and diseased...
Sailor Charles ("Buddy") Cowart, 19, refused to tell the Press how he dangled for two hours on a rope beneath the wind-tossed U. S. S. Akron over Camp Kearny, Calif, unless the Press would pay him (TIME, May 23). But in Tulsa, Okla. last week Sailor Cowart could not resist spinning a yarn for the home folks. He described how he and two mates of the ground crew were jerked high into the air when the airship broke her moorings...