Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty-six years before Judge began, George Wilkes and Enoch Camp established in Manhattan the National Police Gazette. Purpose: "To assist the operations of the police department . . . by publishing a minute description of felons' names, aliases and persons," offering "a most interesting record of horrid murders, outrageous robberies, bold forgeries, astounding burglaries, hideous rapes, vulgar seductions." Like Judge, the Police Gazette tried to live up to its founders' precepts, but languished with the rise of modern tabloid journalism. Insolvent for four months, it suspended publication last month. Last week Irving Trust Co. also...
...prospects, however are more cheerful in the inter-companion, hotel, and camp fields. Over 2000 circular letters have been mailed to prospective employers, and from these there has been an unusually high percentage of returns...
...recommended by the Student Employment Office to summer camp directors and hotel managers should display a similar aggressiveness, and describe their qualifications fully through immediate and direct correspondence with these officers
...which the choristers will sing include: "Heart of Oak", music by William Boyce, 1759; and words by David Garrick, 1759: "The World Turned Upside Down", anonymous; "Liberty Tree", by Thomas Paine, 1775; "Battle of the Kegs", by Francis Hopkinson, 1778; "Chester" William Brilings, 1777; "The Yankee's Return From Camp", by Edward Bangs, 1775; "American Hearts of Oak", by J. W. Hewlings, 1775; and "War and Washington", by Jonathan M. Sewall...
Nevertheless, it is to Mr. Bickford's prospecting camp that Miss Twelve trees goes as housekeeper. Virtuously she makes out the limits of a housekeeper's duties with the aid of a revolver. One fine day, a long-lost lover comes ahydroplaning down the Orinoco, though it might be the "great, green, greasy Limpopo", for all we care. Interest grows as the young man precipitates a triangle and goes slinking around the house at night whispering to the girl. Later, the story outdoes itself by revealing that the hero isn't a hero after all, but a selfish meanie...