Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boat at Grass Margin for the night. When she becomes pregnant the hunter wants to marry her. Sister is being forced into a shotgun wedding by her dying father and casual sweetheart when her intelligent, cultivated grandfather saves her by taking her across the river to his own camp. The grandfather, a backwoods philosopher who reads Shakespeare, carves wooden figures and talks "noble platitudes" to the girl, also cares for her during her pregnancy, gets a wealthy New Orleans doctor who is his friend to deliver the child, drives a lingering sense of shame and guilt from Sister...
Because he cannot "defend a failure." Mr. Smith announced he was going over to the London camp. Just what this failure amounts to was shown in cold facts by President Roosevelt at Pittsburgh the same evening. The increase in the public debt during the past three year's has been $8,000,000,000, while the increase in the annual national income during that period has been $15,000,000,000. If would be interesting for Mr. Smith and his friends to challenge this $8,000,000,000 as a reasonable price for recovery. During the year ending October...
...outsiders as ''holy rollers." In Bishop Tomlinson's huge wooden tabernacle at Cleveland, a small East Tennessee town 40 miles southeast of Fundamentalist Dayton, little Founder Tomlinson, 71, brought to a close the liveliest revival meeting in a generation of distributing tracts and organizing holy roller camp meetings among the hillbillies of the Great Smoky Mountains. Some 15,000 of his 100,000 disciples were in Cleveland preaching, praying, yelling, healing each other and throwing fits in The Church of God's 31st and greatest annual get-together...
...where for some time he vacillated between painting, sculpture and architecture. When the War broke, Boris Lovet-Lorski promptly enlisted in the Grodno Hussars, for no other reason than that he liked their gaudy uniform. He was wounded twice, hospitalized in Odessa, soon found himself a personal aide-de-camp to Alexander Kerensky. On the rise of the Bolsheviks, "Lorochka" fled Russia as a cello player...
...House, which does a great deal of charity work each year, is headed by an undergraduate president, Kaltenborn, and a graduate secretary, Raymond Dennett '36. The first meeting for 1936-37 of the Brooks Cabinet, the executive organization of the House, was held last Saturday night at the Lincoln Camp in East Gloucester...