Word: clintons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word within the parenthesis was NOT "Applesauce." Let Subscriber Clinton look again. The word was "applause." - Ed. Indispensable...
...SILAS R. CLINTON...
Senator from North Carolina, was accused last week by the able Washington correspondent, Clinton W. Gilbert, of having done a good turn for his college and his state. Senator Simmons is the senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. Mr. Gilbert accused him of being "an excellent trade," of getting in "his best licks behind the scenes." He went...
...dance began. Charlestoners, male and female, from Akron, Cleveland, Canton, McKeesport, Pa.; from Detroit and Toledo; from Wichita, Kan., Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Davenport, Topeka, Omaha, and Waterloo, la.; from Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Fort Wayne, Joliet and Peoria, 111.; from Charleston, Little Rock, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Tulsa, Okla., branded their shinbones and burned their heels, clutched each other, pumping, weaving, while the fiddles whimpered and the drums pitapated. "CHARLEston," said the pipsqueak piccolos, "CharleSTON," sang the clariboes, "CHARLESTON." the drunken night-horns caroled, hoarse and sweet. The long-haired bimboes, the pool-parlor cowboys, street-sheiks, bullyboys...
...negotiator with the Indians, he settled down as a farmer, after his marriage, in the province of New York. He "suffered much for his attachment to his Majesty's government and friends," was driven from his farm and became a refugee, protected with others of his kind by Clinton's army, until 1870, when he returned to France. After the war France sent him to America as consul to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut-a post creditably filled until 1790, when he returned to France on the eve. of its own Revolution, which claimed his remaining years...