Word: chestnuts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week, trying to force through some legislation that would make this bond issue possible, Governor Long stood at the door of the legislative chamber, peeking in. The sergeant-at-arms slammed the door in his face. †Chincapin: dwarf chestnut...
...have scorned at his own club on a still day. In the preliminary handicap J. H. R. Kretschman, a Canadian, won with 195 after shooting off a tie with a Philadelphian and a gunner from New Haven. Next day, however, Kretschman was not important. Lanky Stevenson M. Crothers from Chestnut Hill, Pa., hung his coat on a nail, put on an old sweater and a white eyeshade, raised his single-barrelled, closed-bore Daley gun and giving a gruff bark that meant "Pull!" each time he was ready, knocked the skimming little discs to pieces with dismaying regularity...
...clock tonight the orchestra will play at the Harvard Musical Association, 57-A Chestnut Street., Boston, in a concert open to members of the Association, which was founded by members of the Pierian Sodality...
...Smith, headmaster of the Beaver Country Day in Chestnut Hill, will discuss "Private Secondary Education in a Democracy". In the Inglis Lecture for 1930 Professor Thomas H. Briggs launched an attack on the private schools as selfish and having no place in the educational system. Dr. Briggs will speak on the subject from the standpoint of one associated with progressive education in the private-school field...
...each, were burned to death, among them names often shouted by the crowds along the rail?Dude Girl, Leisure Hour, Rogue's Gold, Bourbon, Royal Ruby and two western platers, Pik Quik and Flapjack, owned by Major R. Nicholas of Big Horn, Wyo. One hour after the chestnut horse had kicked the boards in his stall at the smell of smoke there were no more screams of burning horses. The reluctant dawn sky had turned bright blue; smoke still curled into the still air; and exercise boys were breezing their colts around the soft dirt track...