Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pronounced Stewkey); after being attacked by a lion; at Thompson's Amusement Park, Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. Since his unfrocking for unministerial relations with prostitutes, Mr. Davidson had kept in the limelight by appearing at a suburban movie house, exhibiting himself in a barrel, being ejected from a nudist camp. His last exploit, lion-taming, ended when during the course of his act he accidentally trod on the toe of a lioness whose mate leaped at him, mortally mauled him before his 16-year-old girl assistant could come to the rescue...
...20th anniversary of the day he became the first U. S. civilian to be drafted into the World War, Dr. Joseph Edward Silliman Jr., 4 2-year-old Manhattan dentist, reminisced: "We were called and taken out to Camp Upton, at Yaphank...
Early last week rumors began flying in Williamstown, Mass, that President Tyler Dennett of Williams College was going to resign. Bristle-headed President Dennett, fishing at his camp near Lake George, N. Y., would not deny or confirm. Neither would Lawyer Bentley Wirt Warren, suave chairman of the finance committee of Williams' Board of Trustees. But when the story was published as fact by the Springfield Republican, President Dennett broke his silence to announce that for two weeks his resignation had been sealed, delivered, and accepted by the trustees to take effect Sept. i. "The sole issue between...
...military guard and stoplights are supposed to halt automobiles when planes are coming in or going out. For years Congressional committees have toyed with the project of acquiring a municipal port. Nothing has been done. This week a commission appointed by Congress recommended purchase of a site near Camp Springs, Md. Opposition is certain to develop because it is ten miles from Washington...
There are three Life Camps: for girls at Branchville, Conn., directed by Miss Lois Goodrich; for boys (8 to 16) at Pottersville, N. J., under William L. Gunn; and a new pioneer camp for older boys (13 to 16) at Matamoras, Pa., under Martin J. Feely. The camps stay open until Sept. 1. Youngsters spend at least a fortnight in camp and many of them stay a month. The Branchville camp runs an extra ten days for a group of older girls (16 to 20) known as the Life Lifers' Club...