Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concerts John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his daughter Abby sat on camp chairs and listened. Afterwards Mr. Rockefeller offered to help pay the expenses, paid for two concerts in 1919, for the four January concerts every year since. Rich Manhattanites like Clarence Mackay, Mr. and Mrs. George Blumenthal, Frederic A. Juilliard, the late Charles W. Gould paid for four concerts every March...
Died. Clarence B. ("Herschie") Herschberger, 60, famed oldtime (1894, 1896-98) University of Chicago fullback; by his own hand (gas); in Chicago. Chicago's only 13-letter man, Fullback Herschberger was the first Midwestern player named to Walter Camp's All-America football team (1898), first footballer to be x-rayed after an injury, reputedly first to spiral a punt, never weighed over...
...Hollywood bigwigs like Producer Sam Goldwyn and Actor Gary Cooper for Sun Valley's premiere, is likely to leave Ketchum profoundly bored. Because the town is too small for a cinema theatre, they are unknown. Proprietors of Ketchum's Brant Hotel and its $2-a-day tourist camp dislike their new rival, expect it to spoil their trade. Rates at Sun Valley Lodge start down from suites at $48 a day to two-cot cubicles...
...upon discovering that his wife was in love with Farmer Jim Phelps, Jay Fleener, married 20 years, arranged a divorce, bought Mrs. Fleener and Suitor Phelps a wedding license, paid for the wedding, gave them $500 for their honeymoon, provided Mr. & Mrs. Phelps work and lodging at his tourist camp when they came back...
...account makes these kittens sound like something out of a Walt Disney cartoon. One always walked erect, "staggering around like a decrepit old man." Another discovered he could ride on his mother's flat tail, would catch a ride whenever Jelly Roll waddled around the camp. Sometimes three kittens would ride, one passenger standing on the tail with one leg and marking time with the other on the floor, like a child scooting along on a Kiddie-Kar. Jelly Roll would pay no attention whatsoever...